RUST079 PO - Russian Short Fiction: Tales of Passion, Crime, Wars and Revolutions

When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
Instructor(s): L. Rudova
Credit: 1

A survey of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Russian fiction, focusing on the individual, social and political dilemmas faced by central characters in the context of Russian culture and history. Theoretical issues of narrative strategies and literary techniques. Authors include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Petrushevskaia and Pelevin. All readings in English.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Writing Intensive