Undergraduate Courses
E353 Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation
Prerequisite: One course in literature or HY 235.The first half of this course offers a survey of some of the major works in Russian Literature, from the early 19th century to the Russian Revolution. The readings typically include Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, Gogol’s Dead Souls, Tolstoy’s The Cossacks, Dostoyevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” and a play or stories by Chekhov. The second half of the course covers representative works of literature from the Soviet period and normally includes dissident literature (Solzhenitsyn), exile literature (Nabokov), a sample of officially approved Soviet literature (Semyonov, for example), and literature tolerated by the Soviet Union but not approved (Iskandar).
The purpose of the course is to give students a broad familiarity with Russian and Soviet literature, and fresh perspectives on Russian and Soviet society.
Another goal of the course is to reassess many unquestioned assumptions about and approaches to literature in the West by considering prevailing attitudes in the Soviet Union, both official (Stalinist, Glasnost) and popular.
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