Russian Language & Literature 340 - SEM:RUSSIAN THOUGHT

Topics course. We shall examine how the iconic status of woman as moral redeemer and social path breaker is shadowed by a darker view of female self and sexuality in some representative works by male authors of the Russian nineteenth century. The primary texts are Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Turgenev's On The Eve, Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done?, Dostoevsky's A Gentle Spirit and Tolstoy's TAnna Karenina and the Kreutzer Sonata. These novelistic narratives will be supplemented with theoretical essays by Belinsky, J.S. Mill, Schopenhauer and Vladimir Soloviev.

Topic: A Double Vision: Heroine/Victim. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores