Russian 404
Special Topics in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Gogol and Dostoevsky
Full course for one semester. This course will examine
representative works by Nikolaj Gogol and Feodor Dostoevsky,
studying them as closed literary systems on the one hand, and as
specimens of developing narrative techniques of the novel as rooted
in conventions of voice, genre, and "ideology." Nineteenth- and
twentieth-century critical responses will be consulted. The first
half of the semester will be devoted to Gogol’s fiction and
relevant critical essays, while the second half of the semester
will focus on selected novellas and novels of Dostoevsky.
Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian
credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the
instructor. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 404. Not offered
2005-06.
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