ISSS 348S - The Search for Self in Russian Classics

From copy clerks to kings, outcasts to aristocrats, demons to dandies, the characters that populate the pages of the nineteenth-century Russian classics represent a wide range of both Russian and universal human types. Throughout this course students will explore the recurrent question: To what extent are the issues raised in the nineteenth-century Russian classics applicable to the challenges of contemporary America and to our own personal lives? Students will sample classic works from a variety of genres (short story, novel, poetry, “novel in verse,” drama) and authors (Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov). (IR)

Credits: 3