RUSS 1307 - ANTON CHEKHOV & WORLD LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description The course surveys Anton Chekhov's career as a playwright, short story writer, and a medical doctor in a rigorously articulated literary, critical, and historical context. While contemplating Russian, Western, and global mythologies about the "Chekhovian" trend in literary production, the course places Chekhov's works in conversation with a range of literary and critical texts to investigate world literature as a comparative angle and a conceptual paradigm as well as to think about the aims and methods of humanistic knowledge making in the 21st century. Each time the course is offered a unique set of additional readings is drawn from a wide range of authors, including such writers as Samuel Beckett, David Bezmozgis, William Boyd, Raymond Carver, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Inua Ellams, William Faulkner, Mavis Gallant, Maksim Gorkii, Henrik Ibsen, Nikolai Leskov, Yiyun Li, Audre Lorde, Guy de Maupassant, Alice Munro, R. K. Narayan, Joyce Carol Oates, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Vladimir Sorokin, Lev Tolstoi, Reza de Wet, Eudora Welty, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, and Virginia Woolf, among others.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Capstone Course, Russian & East European Studies

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