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Russian literature is identified with its great 19th c. novels,"baggy monsters" of 600-1200 pages. In this course we will instead investigate an array of short fictional forms (stories, novellas, tales, plays, and journalistic sketches) by Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, in light of their competitive redefinitions of the tasks of art and consciousness, as well as their continuing technical and philosophical impact on modern narrative. No prerequisites. Course conducted in English. Students with Russian competence will have opportunity to read and work with texts in original