We will look both at good powers, powers believed to heal and even to help those who died tragically, and bad powers, powers thought to cause spoiling, to destroy crops, to sicken cattle and even people. Herman A study of Tolstoy's art and philosophy. Includes Anna Karenina and all the major short fiction. No knowledge of Russian required. This course will examine many of the most famous works of 19th-century Russian literature, with a particular focus on the way Russia's writers have used images of doubling and the demonic to illustrate their exploration of issues of class, gender, and identity, both personal and national.
All readings are in English.
This course examines a series of Eastern European literary works and films as insights to cultural responses to major historical and intellectual challenges in Eastern Europe from the outbreak of World War II to the present. We will read and analyze examples of the short story and the povest' written in this period. All readings will be in Russian. Discussion and writing assignments will be in English. Reading knowledge of Russian.