Survey of Russian Literature from 1870 to 1900

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Survey of Russian Literature from 1870 to 1900
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NOVELS AND STORIES INCLUDED IN THE COURSE

• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• Ivan Turgenev, Spring Torrents
• Feodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
• Leskov, The Enchanted Wanderer
• Garshin, The Red Flower
• Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog, Anna on
  the Neck, The Darling
• Tolstoy, Hadji Murat

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Does that look BORING?
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UNDER THESE DULL TITLES IS CONCEALED A
FASCINATING WORLD FOR YOU TO DISCOVER
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TOPICS INCLUDE

• gender relations
• love and modernity
• the metaphysics of beauty
• utopian vision of history
• Russia and the West
• murders and the concept of free will
• parricide and nihilism
• intersection of literature and painting

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intersection of literature and painting
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Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of Leo Tolstoy. 1873
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• While Kramskoy was scrutinizing Tolstoy, the
  writer decided to depict Kramskoy in his novel
  Anna Karenina.
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• Thanks to their friendly relations, we know
  what Anna Karenina (one of the most beautiful
  women in world literature) looked like.

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Students majoring in Russian are encouraged to
consult texts in the original language and are
required to quote from them in Russian in their
papers.
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• Taking this course you will meet the
  Upper-Language Writing Requirement (ULWR)