Madness, Murder, Mayhem: Nineteenth- Century Russian Literature

 

Readings of representative works with emphasis on major literary movements, cultural history, and the development of new genres. Primary texts by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, as well as some critical materials. No knowledge of Russian required. (Same as Comparative Literature 225). Maximum enrollment, 40.