LLSL2351

This seminar focuses on key works of 19th and 20th century Russian literature, including Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain's Daughter, Mikhail Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time, Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Glory. It may also cover some of the rich critical writing on prose theory that has been inspired by the Russian novel. Topics may include literary history and evolution, genre theory, ethics and aesthetics, metaphysics, religion in literature, and literature as religion.