LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION
Take a literary journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, following the shifting cultural and political currents in Russia from the years preceding the 1917 Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in the 1930s. Topics in translation will include: revolutionary violence and terror, civil war and emigration, Futurism and the birth of Russian avant-garde art, Soviet feminism and the engineering of the "New Man," technological utopias and totalitarian dystopias, literature and early Soviet economic policy.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct close readings of literary texts that take into consideration both form and content. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Acquire a greater awareness of another culture and become more adept at engaging with perspectives and ways of thinking that are different from the student's own. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop a sensitivity to the way texts and ideas are rooted in their unique historical and political contexts, while having a life span that stretches far beyond them. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct close readings of literary texts that take into consideration both form and content. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Acquire a greater awareness of another culture and become more adept at engaging with perspectives and ways of thinking that are different from the student's own. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop a sensitivity to the way texts and ideas are rooted in their unique historical and political contexts, while having a life span that stretches far beyond them. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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- LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION · 3 credits.