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2020-21 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-21 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 446 Russian Fiction


This is a survey of Russian fiction, of its themes and narrative techniques, with special emphasis on works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn. Russian history, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of the new Russian Republic, is studied. The course approaches individual works as cultural artifacts of their times.