Vue d'ensemble
Russe (Arts) : The Russian twentieth-century literary dynamic up to the watershed of Stalin's death (1953). Carving out cultural territory against ideological polemics, revolutionary versus traditional values, the explosion of avant-garde experimentation under mounting critical conformism as reflected in major works and authors (Mayakovsky, Babel, Bulgakov, Platonov and others).
Terms: Automne 2009
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
- Given in English