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SLAVGEN 13N: Russia and the Russian Experience

Preference to freshmen. The political and cultural history of Russia and the Russians: prominent persons, prominent events, and how they shape current attitudes and society. Short works by Russian authors.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

SLAVGEN 77Q: Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol

Preference to sophomores. The work and life of Nikolai Gogol, the eccentric founder of Fantastic Realism. The relationship between romanticism and realism in Russian literature, and between popular Ukranian culture and high Russian and W. European traditions in Gogol's oeuvre. The impact of his work on 20th-century modernist literature, music, and art, including Nabokov, literature of the absurd, Shostakovich, Meyerhold, and Chagall.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

SLAVGEN 141: Staging the Revolution: Russian Theater and Society, 1917-1937 (SLAVGEN 241)

Between 1917 and 1937, artistic experimentation in the Russian theater coincided with political and social changes in Russian society. Modernist artists interpreted the revolution as an artistic possibility to demolish conventions of representation. Mass festivals, circus, and street performances replaced the old theater. In the time of the Great Terror and staged trials, theater and opera remained among the leading arts, but state patronage caused a major reorientation of artistic practices. Readings include plays by Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Babel, Tretiakov, and Erdman. Readings in English.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

SLAVGEN 145: Age of Experiment: From Pushkin to Dostoevsky (SLAVGEN 245)

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom

SLAVGEN 146: The Great Russian Novel: History and Other Theories of Time and Action (SLAVGEN 246)

Connections of philosophy to literary form in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and other stories.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II

SLAVGEN 148: Dissent and Disenchantment: A Survey of Russian Literature and Culture, 1953 to the Present (SLAVGEN 248)

From the death of Stalin to post-communist Russia. Literature of the thaw and de-Stalinization, official and unofficial literature of dissent, samizdat, village and urban prose, literature of the new emigration, late Soviet underground, sots-art, perestroika, and post-communist literature and culture. Texts in English translation. For graduate credit for research paper, register for 399.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors: Skakov, N. (PI)

SLAVGEN 151: Dostoevsky and His Times (COMPLIT 119, COMPLIT 219, SLAVGEN 251)

Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Major works in English translation with reference to related developments in Russian and European culture, literary criticism, and intellectual history.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Frank, J. (TA)

SLAVGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, HUMNTIES 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81)

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

SLAVGEN 190: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought (HUMNTIES 197F, SLAVGEN 290)

Themes: institutions of the family and gender; debate about the female body, church, and religion; the decline of privilege and the rise of capital and industry; the meaning of art and the artist; conflicts of law and custom, country and city, andnationalism and cosmopolitanism; and the ascetic rejection of the world. Authors include Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Weber, and Freud.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

SLAVGEN 221: Modernism and the Jewish Voice in Europe (COMPLIT 247, GERGEN 221A)

Some of the most haunting literary voices of the 20th century emerged from the Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe. The Jewishness of the modernists is thematized, asking whether it contributed to shared attitudes toward text, history, or identity. Their works are situated in specific linguistic traditions: Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, or German. Primary readings from Ansky, Bialik, Mandelstam, Babel, Schulz, Kafka, Celan; secondary readings in history, E. European literature, and theory, including Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Arendt.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-4
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