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Preference to freshmen. The political and cultural history of Russia and the Russians: prominent persons, prominent events, and how they shape current attitudes and society. Short works by Russian authors.

The cohabitation of authors and cultural geography in multiethnic Ukraine. Comparison of Ukrainian texts, images of Ukraine and Ukrainians by their Polish, Jewish, German, and Russian cohabitants. Possible authors include : Andrukhovych, Aleichem, Babel, Celan, Franko, Gogol, Lewycka, Mickiewicz, Shevchenko, Pushkin, Schulz, Ukraina, and Zabuzhko.

The humor, drama, anger, and artistry of modern E. European and American Yiddish writers including Sholem Aleichem, I. L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chaim Grade, and Yankev Glatshteyn. In English.

How Yiddish novels reveal changes in modern Jewish life and literature in Europe and the U.S. The influences of folklore, traditional Jewish culture, and European literature. Works by Isaac and Joshua Singer, Joseph Opatoshu, Der Nister, Chava Rosenfarb, Sholem Asch, and David Bergelson. Readings in English; optional sessions for close readings in Yiddish.

The physical and cultural territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have long been objects of contest. The 20th century witnessed two or three rebirths of Poland and one or two deaths; a belated modernization of Polish society; the final inclusion of Polish-speaking peasants and burghers in a Polish national identity; and the exclusion of Jews, Germans, Lithuanians, Belarusans, Ukrainians, and others from the state and participation in a partially shared culture.

Between 1917 and 1937, artistic experimentation in the Russian theater coincided with political and social changes in Russian society. Modernist artists interpreted the revolution as an artistic possibility to demolish conventions of representation. Mass festivals, circus, and street performances replaced the old theater. In the time of the Great Terror and staged trials, theater and opera remained among the leading arts, but state patronage caused a major reorientation of artistic practices. Readings include plays by Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Babel, Tretiakov, and Erdman. Readings in English.

Before the Great 19th c. Russian Novel broke the barrier for realist and philosophical heft, Russian writers experimented furiously in short fictional forms. We will read a rich assortment of texts from Pushkin and Gogol through early Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, with an eye to literary innovation and influence on modern short form.

Connections of philosophy to literary form in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and other stories.

First of two-part sequence. Russian modernism and the avant garde.The Russian Revolution, the era of the NEP, Soviet civilization, and the literature of opposition following Stalin¿s death. Texts in English translation.