Russian

RUSS3052Introduction to 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation 3 ch (3C) [W]

Includes Futurism, Symbolism, Acmeism and Russia's Silver Age; literature and Revolution; housing and homelessness in Soviet literature; women's writing; Socialist realism (boy meets girl, boy gets tractor); censorship and oppression; experimental prose of the ‘20s; aspects of Soviet cinema; Russia's ‘New Wave' meets America's Beatniks; Bulgakov's magical fable; etc. Conducted in English. Open to students who have completed at least 30 ch of university courses or by permission of instructor.