RUSS 173 - Focus on Literature (in English)

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Aspects of the Russian literary tradition including authors, genres, and thematic emphases and the place of this tradition in world literature. Russian majors see RUSS 273.

Topic for 2014/15b: Russian Women Writers. This course is a survey of the major literary achievements by women writers in Russia and the Soviet Union. While seldom studied as a cohesive literary tradition, women writers have made tremendous contributions to the Russian literary canon and continue to shape the trajectory of Russian literature to this day. The readings for this course will cover major literary genres, including prose, poetry, memoir and drama from the nineteenth century to the present. Lectures and discussions will explore questions of gender, genre and the socio-historical evolution of the female subject within the Russian literary canon. Accompanied by film screenings. Ms. Safariants.

All readings and discussion are in English.

Two 75-minute periods.