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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Apr 19, 2024
 
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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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


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