This course provides a study of the major works and literary trends in world literature. Course content varies by instructor and semester. This section focuses on Russian Literature. The Russian people claim to read more than any other nationality. Indeed, their literature informs the culture, politics, geography, and economic systems that define the country. From its anti-Western slant to the writings that led many of its great authors into exile or worse, Russian literature is at home in a boundless geographical landscape that is both vast and seemingly inescapable and is comprised of writing focused on the relationships between people, pride in one’s homeland, and, at times, anti-materialism. This class will examine literature from some of the most well-known Russian authors to determine what characteristics best define Russian literature and why.

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Submissions from 2020

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The Bronze Horseman: A St Petersburg Story, A. S. Pushkin

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy

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The Nose, Nikolai Gogol

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"The Grand Inquisitor" from The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Literary Evidence Needs to be Explained, Grounds for Argument

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We, Eugnen Zamiatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity, kanopy

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The Lower Depths, Maxim Gorky

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Letter to Nikoali Gogol, V. G. Belinsky

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The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov

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Art as Technique, Viktor Shklovsky

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Requiem, Anna Akhmatova