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RUS2102 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and their Age

Syllabus Winter 2010

Monday 11:30-13:00

Thursday 13:00 - 14:30

Simard 222

07.01 Russia under Nicholas 11.01 From Romanticism to Realism: Pushkin's “Queen of Spades” 14.01 Gogol: “The Overcoat.” 18.01 Turgenev: “First Love.” 21.01 Oblomov and oblomovitis. 25.01 Alexander and the age of reform. The Nihilists. 28.01 Dostoevsky: his life and meaning. 01.02 Crime and Punishment. 04.02 Crime and Punishment. 08.02 Crime and Punishment. 11.02 Crime and Punishment. 22.02 “Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

25.02 Midterm 01.03 Tolstoy: life and meaning. 04.03 Tolstoy: Childhood. 08.03 Tolstoy: Childhood. 11.03 War and Peace: extracts. 15.03 Anna Karenina 18.03 Anna Karenina 22.03 Anna Karenina 25.03 Anna Karenina 29.03 Anna Karenina 01.04 After 1881: the reaction, the new reader Garshin: “Four Days.” 08.04 Chekhov: “Peasants.” 12.04 Chekhov: “The Student.”