COURSE OUTLINE for RUSSIAN 3421

RUSSIAN LITERATURE: MIDDLE AGES TO DOSTOEVSKY

• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION: Russia: Land and People
• LESSON 1: The Literature of Old Rus'
• LESSON 2: The Dawn of Modern Russian Literature: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• LESSON 3: Classicism and Sentimentalism
• LESSON 4: The Golden Age: Aleksandr Pushkin
• LESSON 5: Romanticism: Mikhail Lermontov
• LESSON 6: The Rise of Prose: Nikolai Gogol
• LESSON 7: The Young Dostoevsky and the Dawn of Realism
• LESSON 8: Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
• LESSON 9: Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• LESSON 10: Russian Realism: Themes, Method, and Context (Prof. C. Kulesov)
• LESSON 11:  Turgenev (Prof. C. Kulesov)
• Chronology and Periodization of Russian Literature
• Select Bibliography