82-492 The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Units: 9,12 Department: Modern Languages Prerequisites: 82-292 Cross-listed: 76-493 , 79-432 Related URLs: http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/mode Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Lermontov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy all ruminated upon their nation's historical destiny. This course aims to describe the role played by imagination in these authors' efforts to wreck from Russia's 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 individual's location within the projected historical scheme. Lecture and discussion formats are combined at each Written papers, oral presentations, and participation in discussions are required, as are reading assignments of approximately 200 pages per week. Prerequisites: 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 instructor's permission is required.

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