Russian Modernism: Decadence, Symbolism, and the Avant-garde in Russia

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course offers a detailed introduction to the art and thought of Russian modernism (1890-1921). It covers the colorful phenomenon of decadence and its literary and ideological manifestations, from symbolism and "the new religious consciousness" to the avant-garde and an overcoming of the decadent mood in the post-symbolist poetics.