printer friendly pageSLAVIC 77Q: Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol
Preference to sophomores. An investigation of the works and life of Nikolai Gogol, the most eccentric of Russian authors and the founder of what is dubbed Fantastic Realism. Our investigation will be based on close reading of works written in various genres and created in various stages of Gogol's literary career. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 194: Russia: Literature, Film, Identity, Alterity (SLAVIC 394)
How do Russian literature and film imagine Russian identity ¿ and, in contrast, the ethnic or national Other? Does political and literary theory analyzing national identity and the literary imagination elsewhere hold true in the Russian context? Texts include works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Blok, Mayakovsky, Platonov; Soviet and post-Soviet films; theory and history. Recommended for returnees from Moscow, Slavic majors, and CREEES MA students. Accepted for IR credit. Readings in English and films subtitled; additional section for Russian readers. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
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Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 195: Russian and East European Theater (SLAVIC 395)
Evolution of modernist Russian/EEur. dramaturgy, theatrical practices, landmark productions from Chekhov-Meyerhold-Grotowski to present; re-performance of classics; techniques of embodiment. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates
Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
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Freidin, G. (PI)
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Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
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Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 200: Proseminar in Literary Theory and Study of Russian Literature
Introduction to advance study of Russian literature and culture: profession, discipline, theoretical perspectives. Variety of approaches, from semiological to psychoanalytic, phenomenological, historical, and sociological; practical exercises in the analysis of verse, narrative, and visual representation in literature and art. Three short essays (800 words) and a review of a recent monograph on Russian literature and culture. Required for graduate students and honors seniors in Russian; first-year graduate students must enroll during their first quarter. Prerequisites: Knowledge of Russian language and literature
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 200B: Research Tools and Professionalization Workshop for Slavic Graduate Students
This course introduces graduate students in Slavic Studies to library, archival, and web resources for research, grant opportunities, publication strategies, and professional timelines. Open to PhD students in the Slavic Department and other departments and to MA students in CREEES.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 1
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 229: Poetry as System: Introduction to Theory and Practice of Russian Verse
Detailed analysis and survey of distinctive features of Russian verse culture in its historical development and in contrast with poetic traditions in other European cultures. Taught in Russian. Prerequisites: 2nd-year Russian
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 236: The Russian Long Take
`Time flows in a film not by virtue but in defiance of montage-cuts,¿ wrote the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. An exploration of the phenomenon of long take (a single continuous shot which presents `a vision of time¿) and its aesthetic and philosophical significance to the art of cinema. Key films by cult Russian/Soviet auteurs such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Paradzhanov and Aleksandr Sokurov will be used as case studies and read through the prism of film theory (Gilles Deleuze, Andre Bazin and Jean Epstein). Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 394: Russia: Literature, Film, Identity, Alterity (SLAVIC 194)
How do Russian literature and film imagine Russian identity ¿ and, in contrast, the ethnic or national Other? Does political and literary theory analyzing national identity and the literary imagination elsewhere hold true in the Russian context? Texts include works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Blok, Mayakovsky, Platonov; Soviet and post-Soviet films; theory and history. Recommended for returnees from Moscow, Slavic majors, and CREEES MA students. Accepted for IR credit. Readings in English and films subtitled; additional section for Russian readers. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 395: Russian and East European Theater (SLAVIC 195)
Evolution of modernist Russian/EEur. dramaturgy, theatrical practices, landmark productions from Chekhov-Meyerhold-Grotowski to present; re-performance of classics; techniques of embodiment. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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