Russian 421
Russian Romanticism in its West European Context
Full course for one semester. This course examines and
contextualizes the philosophical and aesthetic ideas and artistic
conventions that characterize Russian literature from the period
roughly between 1780 and 1840 within the Western European cultural
movements of sentimentalism and romanticism. The readings are
organized around a set of central issues: the renegotiation of the
boundary between poetry and philosophy, the conception of the human
personality, cultural pluralism, the sublime, romantic irony, and
romantic nationalism. Texts include the writings of Radishchev,
Karamzin, Pushkin, Odoevsky, Pavlova, Gogol, Lermontov, and
Turgenev, among the Russians; and Rousseau, Sterne, Burke, Goethe,
Schiller, Hoffman, Tieck, Constant, and Byron, among the Western
Europeans. 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
421. Not offered 2005-06.
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