printer friendly pageSLAVGEN 165: Poetry, Painting, and Music of the Russian Avant Garde (SLAVGEN 265)
Interrelationships between poetry and other arts in Russia, 1905-30. The pursuit of synthesis of arts and the modernist agenda of life creation and immortality. Parallel developments in literature, painting, and music, and style and poetics. Russian modernist poetry in the context of changes in the language of visual arts and music). Women poets and artists. Native sources and Western influences; non-Russian elements and transnational tendencies. The impact of scientific discoveries and technological inventions on artistic experimentation.
SLAVGEN 169: Mermaids, the Firebird, and the Singing Tree: Russian Folklore and Its Theory (SLAVGEN 269)
Russian culture through its oral folklore and music. Theory, current data and its interpretation, how scholars collect and understand traditional oral poetry, and the lessons of folklore.
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SLAVGEN 210: The Gogol Bordello: Ukraine as a Meeting House of Cultures (SLAVGEN 110)
The cohabitation of authors and cultural geography in multiethnic Ukraine. Comparison of Ukrainian texts, images of Ukraine and Ukrainians by their Polish, Jewish, German, and Russian cohabitants. Possible authors include : Andrukhovych, Aleichem, Babel, Celan, Franko, Gogol, Lewycka, Mickiewicz, Shevchenko, Pushkin, Schulz, Ukraina, and Zabuzhko.
SLAVGEN 222: Yiddish Story (SLAVGEN 122)
The humor, drama, anger, and artistry of modern E. European and American Yiddish writers including Sholem Aleichem, I. L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chaim Grade, and Yankev Glatshteyn. In English.
SLAVGEN 223: The Yiddish Novel (SLAVGEN 123)
How Yiddish novels reveal changes in modern Jewish life and literature in Europe and the U.S. The influences of folklore, traditional Jewish culture, and European literature. Works by Isaac and Joshua Singer, Joseph Opatoshu, Der Nister, Chava Rosenfarb, Sholem Asch, and David Bergelson. Readings in English; optional sessions for close readings in Yiddish.
SLAVGEN 233: Poles and Others: Literature and History in Modern Poland (SLAVGEN 133)
The physical and cultural territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have long been objects of contest. The 20th century witnessed two or three rebirths of Poland and one or two deaths; a belated modernization of Polish society; the final inclusion of Polish-speaking peasants and burghers in a Polish national identity; and the exclusion of Jews, Germans, Lithuanians, Belarusans, Ukrainians, and others from the state and participation in a partially shared culture.
SLAVGEN 250: Countercultures in Conversation: Russian and American Rock Music and Protest Poetry (SLAVGEN 150)
Non-conformist protest movements in contemporary Russian poetry; historical and cultural context; and comparison with similar processes in American social and cultural life. Sources include Russian and American poetry, songs, and DVDs. Fourth unit for readings in Russian.
SLAVGEN 253: Russian Jewish LIterature (SLAVGEN 153)
Russian Jewish experience inspired books and films in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and English that reveal a world of conflict, humor and beauty. From the mid-19th century to the t21st century. Authors include Haim Nahman Bialik, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac babel, Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky, Leonid Tsypkin, Ludmila Ulitskaia, Gary Shteyngardt.
SLAVGEN 262: Gender Images in Film (SLAVGEN 162)
Film creates permanent new images of femininity. One of its conscious prerequisites is the notion of social stereotypes. The development of enduring images of the film heroine, 1914-90, through a comparison of the Russian, American, and W. European cinema, and analytical approaches to them from feminist film theory.
SLAVGEN 263: Gender in Postwar Russian Culture (SLAVGEN 163)
Issues of femininity and masculinity in Russian literature, film, and popular culture from the 40s to the present. Readings include fiction, memoirs, poetry, drama, and theoretical works in gender studies.
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