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Fall 2005 Courses

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101. Elementary Russian I
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25 Sills-Language Media Center
Emphasis on the acquisition of language skills through imitation and repetition of basic language patterns; the development of facility in speaking and understanding simple Russian. Conversation hour with a native speaker.
203. Intermediate Russian I
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell M 10:30 - 11:25, W 10:30 - 11:25, F 10:30 - 11:25 Sills-Language Media Center
A continuation of Russian 101, 102. Emphasis on maintaining and improving the student’s facility in speaking and understanding normal conversational Russian. Writing and reading skills are also stressed. Conversation hour with native speaker.
224. Dostoevsky or Tolstoy
Raymond Miller T 2:30 - 3:55, TH 2:30 - 3:55 Sills-109
This two part course explores and compares two giants of Russian literature: Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Part I: Tolstoy's development both as a novelist and a moral philosopher. Examines several works, the most important being the novel Anna Karenina, “the pinnacle of European 19th-century realism.” Special emphasis on the tension between Tolstoy-the-artist and Tolstoy-the-moralist. Discussion of the writer's role as "the conscious of Russia" in the last 30 years of his life, as well as his influence on such figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Part II: Dostoevsky‘s quest for guiding principles of freedom and love in a world of growing violence, cynicism and chaos of late tsarist Russia. A close reading of several short works and the novel Brothers Karamazov set in their historical and intellectual framework. Emphasis on the novelist’s struggle between Western materialistic individualism and Eastern voluntary self-renunciation. Examines Dostoevsky’s “fantastic realism” as a polyphony of voices, archetypes, and religious symbols. Screening of Russian, American, Italian and Japanese film versions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky's works.
305. Advanced Reading and Composition in Russian
Raymond Miller M 2:30 - 3:25, W 2:30 - 3:25, F 2:30 - 3:25 Hatch Library-012
Intended to develop the ability to read Russian at a sophisticated level by combining selected language and literature readings, grammar review, and study of Russian word formation. Discussion and reports in Russian. Conversation hour with native speaker.
309. Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Raymond Miller M 10:30 - 11:25, W 10:30 - 11:25, F 10:30 - 11:25 Professor's Office
A survey of Russian prose of the nineteenth century. Special attention paid to the development of Russian realism. Writers include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol’, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy.

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