printer friendly pageSLAVGEN 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
Instructors:
Schupbach, R. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
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 Gogol (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
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVGEN 146: History and Other Theories of Time and Action in the Great Russian Novel (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
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVGEN 147: The Age of War and Revolution: A Survey of Russian Literature and Culture, 1900-1950s (SLAVGEN 247)
First of two-part sequence. Russian modernism and the avant garde.The Russian Revolution, the era of the NEP, Soviet civilization, and the literature of opposition following Stalin¿s death. Texts in English translation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (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. (PI)
SLAVGEN 153: Russian Jewish LIterature (SLAVGEN 253)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVGEN 155: Anton Chekhov and the Turn of the Century (SLAVGEN 255)
Chekhov's art in its Russian literary, historical, philosophical, and political contexts. Short stories and major plays; supplemental readings for graduate students from Chekhov's letters and works by his friends and contemporaries, such as Leskov, Tolstoy, Korolenko, and Gorky.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVGEN 156: Nabokov in the Transnational Context (COMPLIT 115, COMPLIT 215, SLAVGEN 256)
Nabakov's techniques of migration and camouflage as he inhabits the literary and historical contexts of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, America, and Switzerland. His early and late stories, last Russian novel
The Gift, Lolita (the novel and screenplay), and
Pale Fire. Readings in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Erman, I. (TA)
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