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The history and theory of Russian versification from the 17th to the 20th century. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian.

The fundamentals of literary analysis of poetics and rhetoric, as well as concepts and topics in Russian intellectual history. Goal is to improve students' comprehension and expression in Russian while building a conceptual vocabulary for understanding Russian literature and historical thought. In Russian. Prerequisite: third-year Russian or equivalent.

A close reading of Pushkin's masterpiece in the context of the changes that were taking place in literary life of his times. Eugene Onegin and the birth of modern Russian novel. The evolution of Pushkin's literary style and narrative techniques. Final paper. In Russian. Prerequisites: three years of Russian or consent of instructor.

From earliest times through the 17th century. The development of literary and historical genres, and links among literature and art, architecture, and religious culture. Readings in English; graduate students read in original.

Russian literature's central masterpiece. In Russian.\n\n (Fleishman)

For students at the fifth-year Russian level. Advanced language training based on Russian newspapers and magazines. Discussion of issues regarding the Russian media and reading articles of a typical Russian press format.

Major structural and semantic changes from the 10th to the 19th centuries. Recommended: 211, 212.

Required of majors in Russian language and literature; open to undergraduates who have completed three years of Russian, and to graduate students. The major poetic styles of the 19th century as they intersected with late classicism, the romantic movement, and the realist and post-realist traditions. Representative poems by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Zhukovskii, Pushkin, Baratynskii, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, Soloviev. In Russian.

Required of majors in Russian literature. Developments in 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry including symbolism, acmeism, futurism, and literature of the absurd. Emphasis is on close readings of individual poems. Discussions in Russian.