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.
The Bronze Horseman: A St Petersburg Story, A. S. Pushkin
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
The Nose, Nikolai Gogol
"The Grand Inquisitor" from The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Evidence Needs to be Explained, Grounds for Argument
We, Eugnen Zamiatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity, kanopy
The Lower Depths, Maxim Gorky
Letter to Nikoali Gogol, V. G. Belinsky
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
Art as Technique, Viktor Shklovsky
Requiem, Anna Akhmatova
