RUSS411-12W (C)
Whole Year 2012
Study of a Russian Writer
Description
The course studies a major Russian twentieth-century writer within the context of Russian, or East European tradition, or/and within the context of modernist, or postmodernist European writing.
The course studies a major Russian twentieth-century writer within the context of Russian and/or modernist or postmodernist European writing.
Vladimir Nabokov, Exilic Literature and European Identity
The course will study Vladimir Nabokov's stories featuring Europe in the 1920-40s and postmodernist writing of Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, Andrei Makin, and the Nobel prize winners Joseph Brodsky, Wislawa Szymborska, and Svetlana Boym. There will be viewing of films based on some of the texts. The studied texts will include short stories, essays, poems, and Milan Kundera's novel The unbearable lightness of Being that discusses politics and European identity and subverts the totalitarian discourse of the communist regime. The film based on this novel will also be discussed in class.
Subject to approval of the Programme Director.
Timetable
There will be 25 90-minute sessions; viewing sessions are to be arranged.
Course Coordinator
For further information see
School of Languages and Cultures Head of Department
Assessment
Two essays, approximately 3,500 words each. Each essay is equivalent to 50% of the course.
Notes
No knowledge of the Russian language is required.
Depending upon the interest of students, this course may be available as research essay option (topics for a 7,000-8,000-word essay and recommended literature should be discussed with Dr Smith).
For further information see
School of Languages and Cultures.
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