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impact of globalization. Authors include Marinina, Dashkova, Dontsova, Kunin, Ustinova,
and Serova. Readings and films in Russian. Research paper of publishable quality required.
Instructor: Andrews. 1 unit.
245. Theory and Practice of Translation. Detailed study of the American, European, and
Slavic scholarly literature on translation combined with close analysis of existing literary
and journalistic translations and a program of practical translation exercises and projects
from English to Russian and Russian to English. Prerequisite: three years of Russian
language study or consent of instructor. Instructor: Flath. 3 units.
246. Media in Post-Communist Societies (B). 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 243;
also C-L: Political Science 276
258. The Russian Novel. Close reading of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's
Possessed, Andrey Bely's Petersburg, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Nabokov's The
Gift, and Makine's Memoirs of My Russian Summers. Discussions will focus on these
representative writers' changing perceptions of, and responses to social and ethical issues
and of creativity, itself, as the genre evolved in the modern times between the 1870s and now.
Final research paper required and can include in-depth discussion of one of the works or the
comparison of one or more aspects of several texts. Taught in English. Readings in Russian.
Instructor: Mickiewicz. 3 units.
262. Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature II. Selected authors,
works, and genres from the second half of the nineteenth century. Authors include Turgenev,
Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Chekhov. Taught in
English. Readings in Russian. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
269. Women and Russian Literature. Issues of gender and society in women's writing in
Russian from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Both autobiographical writings and
prose fiction. Discussions of whether Russian women's writings constitute a tradition and
what role these works have played in Russian literature and culture. Taught in English.
Readings in Russian. Instructor: Gheith. 3 units.
271S. Bunin: Mystery of the Russian Soul and Metaphysical Memory. Same as Russian
171S, but includes additional assignments. Taught in Russian. Readings in Russian.
Intensive critical component. Instructor: Maksimova. 3 units.
275. Tolstoy. Introduction to life, works, and criticism, including Tolstoy's philosophical
and ethical discourse. Readings include: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, the shorter fiction,
dramatic works and essays. Taught in English. Readings in Russian. Instructor: Van Tuyl.
3 units.
276. Dostoevsky. Introduction to life, works, and criticism. Readings include: Crime and
Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Taught in English. Readings in
Russian. Instructor: Flath or Gheith. 3 units.
277S. Chekhov. Drama and prose works. Readings in Russian. Instructor: Flath. 3 units.
288AS. Apocalyptic Visions and Diabolic Drama: The Works of Mixail Bulgakov.
Critical analysis of Bulgakov's short stories, novellas, plays and novels. In-depth exposure
to major critical works on Bulgakov and influential figures. Taught in Russian. Readings in
Russian. Instructor: Andrews. 3 units.
288BS. Apocalyptic Visions and Diabolic Drama: The Works of Mixail Bulgakov.
Critical analysis of Bulgakov's short stories, novellas, plays and novels. In-depth exposure
to major critical works on Bulgakov and influential figures. Taught in English. Readings in
English. Instructor: Andrews. 3 units.
297. Russian Poetry. Focus on nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Golden
Age and the Silver Age. Authors include Pushkin, Lermontov, Bely, Blok, Akhmatova,
Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, and Mayakovsky. Taught in English or Russian,
according to students' Russian language proficiency. Russian texts. Instructor: Van Tuyl. 3
units.
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