Fall 2008

Strange Russian Writers

Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-22

Faculty

Catherine A. Ciepiela (Section 01)

Description

We will read tales of rebels, deviants, dissidents, loners and losers in some of the weirdest fictions in Russian literature. The writers, most of whom imagine themselves to be every bit as bizarre as their heroes, will include Tolstoy, Leskov, Platonov, Sinyavsky, Tolstaya, Gogol, and Dostoevsky. Our goal will be less to construct a canon of strangeness than to consider closely how estranged women, men, animals, and objects become the center of narrative attention. Fall semester. Professor Ciepiela.

FYSE 22 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM WEBS 215
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM WEBS 215

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2022