| Abstract: | This course provides a close study of key works by the famous Russian writers and poets (in translation)
from the 18th-century until approximately the 1960s. Course materials will include the examples from the
early oral tradition, Russian fairy tales, the prosaic works by Nikolai Karamzin, Aleksandr Pushkin,
Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Leskov, Fedor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton
Chekhov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, and the poetry of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir
Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, and Boris Pasternak. These
works will be placed within the historical, socio-political and literary critical contexts in order to enable
students to comprehend in full the events and characters described by the authors. Students will learn to
analyze the texts from literary critical perspectives. Finally, this course will help the students to
understand Russian literature as a discipline, in particular, and Russian studies, in general.
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