RUSS 252
Spring 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
REES 252, COL 262, RULE 252 |
During the 19th century when Tolstoy wrote his novels and stories, literature was viewed in Russia as the intelligentsia's primary medium for debating its big questions (such as how to resolve the inequalities that had been institutionalized under serfdom, or how to choose between new and old values as Russia experienced modernization). Writers like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky willingly assumed the responsibility to address a broad range of political, historical, and philosophical-religious questions in their fiction, and they wrote novels with radical formulations as well as solutions to these questions. However, they also viewed literature, particularly the novel, as a medium with rich potential for innovative formal experimentation, and so they resisted the call for conventional ideological novels. Each of Tolstoy's best works is an innovative formal experiment that creates an unprecedented, new type of novel. This course will study how Tolstoy's writings both responded to and transcended their times by creating new novelistic forms and new truths within those forms. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA REES |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (REES-MN)(REES-Lang/Lit/C) |
Major Readings:
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH (Penguin) ISBN 0-14-044139-5
TOLSTOY'S SHORT FICTION (Norton) ISBN 978-0-393-93150-1
WAR AND PEACE (Norton) ISBN 978-0393966473
ANNA KARENINA (Norton) ISBN 0-393-96642-9
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three 5-page papers. Frequent ungraded short response papers. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Attendance and participation are required. Conducted in English. Written work to be submitted in hard copy. |
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