RUSS 218. Russian Literature and Revolution.
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RUSS 218
Russian Literature and Revolution.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary café, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.
- Fall or Winter
- Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
- Given in English
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