Writers to be read include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol', Goncharov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Russian majors are required to do some of the reading in Russian. 221c. Every other spring. Explores twentieth-century Russian culture through film, art, architecture, and literature. Works of Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, and Tolstaya.
Weekly film viewings.
Russian majors required to do some reading in Russian. Women in Russian Society and Culture. Every other fall. Studies the socially-constructed image of woman in Russian literature, art, and film. Cross-cultural analysis of female icon in Hollywood and Soviet film.