| The Great Russian Novel: History and Other Theories of Time and Action | Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Dostoevsky’s Demons, and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, written in the decade following the emancipation of the serfs and the great legal reforms, ask how much one person can change history for good or ill. Chekhov’s Ward Number Six as an example of the deformation and adaptation of this tradition at the end of the age of realism. Historical and philosophical context and literary-critical techniques. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM
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| Pushkin and the Golden Age | Graduate seminar. The formation of a simultaneously imperial and Enlightenment culture under Catherine the Great, and how Pushkin and his contemporaries realized its potentials and contradictions. Literary texts in light of other verbal discourses and artistic media; the field of 18th-century and imperial studies in Russia. Undergraduates require consent of instructor. | Aut |
| Pushkin and the Golden Age | Graduate seminar. The formation of a simultaneously imperial and Enlightenment culture under Catherine the Great, and how Pushkin and his contemporaries realized its potentials and contradictions. Literary texts in light of other verbal discourses and artistic media; the field of 18th-century and imperial studies in Russia. Undergraduates require consent of instructor. | Aut |
| Pushkin and the Golden Age | Graduate seminar. The formation of a simultaneously imperial and Enlightenment culture under Catherine the Great, and how Pushkin and his contemporaries realized its potentials and contradictions. Literary texts in light of other verbal discourses and artistic media; the field of 18th-century and imperial studies in Russia. Undergraduates require consent of instructor. | Aut |
| Age of Experiment: From Pushkin to Dostoevsky | The Russian leap into European culture after the Napoleonic Wars and the formative period of Russian literature. Readings seen as local literary developments and contemporary European trends including Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, The Belkin Tales, and The Captain’s Daughter; Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time; and Gogol’s Petersburg Tales and Dead Souls. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
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