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Undergraduate Record 2016-2017 
    
Undergraduate Record 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ISSS 3480 - 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).



Credits: 3