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2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 346 Russian Fiction


This is a survey of the themes and narrative techniques Russian fiction, with special emphasis on select works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It covers Russian history in outline, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of new Russia. The course approaches individual works as cultural products of their times.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.