| Course Title: Great Books: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: In no other culture has literature occupied the central role it enjoyed in nineteenth-century Russia. Political, social, and historical constraints propelled Russian writers into the roles of witness, prophet, and sage. Yet, far from being limited to the vast, dark 'Big Question' novels of legend, Russian literature offers much humor, lyricism, and fantasy. We will focus on the Russian novel as a reaction to western European forms of narrative and consider the recurring pattern of the strong heroine and the weak hero. Authors will include: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Daniel Brooks | dbrooks@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in English. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: ISBN numbers are provided below if you?d like to track down physical or e-book copies of these texts via Amazon, secondhand sellers, etc. If you acquire the texts on your own, it is imperative that the translation & edition be identical to that used by the class. All non-book-length texts will be made available as PDFs on Moodle. See the course schedule for additional context. 1. [a physical copy of this text will be provided to you by the department] Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (trans. Falen; Oxford UP, 2009) ISBN 9780199538645 2. [a copy of this text will be provided to you by the department] Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (trans. Schwartz; Random House, 2004) ISBN 0812970764 3. [to be purchased; if you don?t wish to purchase, multiple copies of this text will be on reserve at the library] Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Children (trans. Slater & Slater, 2022) ISBN 9781681376356 4. [to be purchased; if you don?t wish to purchase, multiple copies of this text will be on reserve at the library] Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (trans. Ready; Penguin Classics, 2015) ISBN 9780143107637 |