RUSS 1310 - NABOKOV

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the major writings of Vladimir Nabokov, including novels and short stories from both the Russian and American periods. Discussion topics will include: the semiotics of life-creation, art as perversity, author-hero dynamics, exile and nostalgia, bilingualism and translation, the violence of linguistic play, the manipulation of narrative desire; modernism and postmodernism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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