Literature and History: Russian Historical Imagination in the European Context

Relationships between fact and fiction between historiography and historical fiction, between ideology and various ways of reconstructing the past. Readings will include historical fiction of Shakespeare, Schiller, Walter Scott, Pushkin, Tolstoy War and Peace , and Pasternak, as well as theoretical texts from Aristotle to Nietzsche, White, and LaCapra. Enrollment limited to 30.