Tolstoi: Anna Karenina

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The course is designed to give students the experience of reading one of the greatest novels in Russian and world literature in the original, of going deep into its poetic structure and coming to an understanding of the text's message(s). To achieve this goal we will be doing close reading of passages and studying the literary, philosophical, and historical contexts of the novel. Course taught in Russian.