Prerequisite: The course is offered in English, three hours per week, for 9 units, for which there are no prerequisites. An additional 3 units are awarded for work conducted in Russian during one additional hourly meeting per week, for which 82-292 or permission of the Instructor is required. EBA: 400-level EBA Core Course that counts toward the pre-1900 period requirement. CW + PW: English Elective that counts toward the Literature Requirement. Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy all ruminated upon their nations historical destiny. This course aims to describe the role played by imagination in these authors? efforts to wreak from Russias past a vision of her future. Emphasis is placed upon the figurative operations of language that allow narrative to function as a guidepost to a collective mission and a map of the individuals location within the projected historical scheme. Lecture and discussion formats are combined at each class meeting. Participation in discussions, oral presentations and written papers are required, as are weekly reading assignments of 200 pages and viewing of films outside of class hours. The course is offered in English, three hours per week, for 9 units. An additional 3 units are awarded for work conducted in Russian during one additional hourly meeting per week.
