Russian 266
Russian Short Fiction
Full course for one semester. Intended for lower-division students,
this course is devoted to close readings of short stories and
novellas by such nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers as
Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel,
Bulgakov, Nabokov, Askyonov, and Tolstaya. Our approach is twofold.
First, we attempt "open" readings, taking our texts as
representatives of a single tradition in which later works are
engaged in a dialogue with their predecessors. Second, we use the
readings as test cases for a variety of critical approaches. Meets
English departmental requirement for 200-level genre courses.
Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian
credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the
instructor. Conference. Not offered 2005-06.
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