Section Info: RES-210-01

Course Title: Great Books: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

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
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	PRAT - Pratt Memorial Music Bldg	109	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Taught in English.

Course Tags

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 28	Enrollment: 25	Available: 0	Waitlist: 4

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.