RUSS 0810 - MASTERPIECES 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on selected masterpieces of twentieth century Russian literature; particularly on four major authors; Bely (Petersburg), Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago), Babel (Red Cavalry), and Solzhenitsyn (Ivan Denisovich). Stories of more contemporary writers, including Rasputin, Bitov, Trifoniv, Iskandar, Sinyavsky, Shukshin, and Voinovich, will also be read. Emphasis is placed on the variety of prose narratives popular in the 20th century, and on the emergence of new problems and perspectives and their expression in the context of Soviet Russia.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) *Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course

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