RUSSN 212A

Main Course

19th-Century Russian Literature: Golden Age

Description

Lecture, three hours. Course 212A or 292A is required for MA (literature). Survey of major literary movements and schools following demise of neoclassicism: sentimental school, early and late Romanticism, and beginnings of natural school. Discussion of representative works of Baratynsky, Batyushkov, Gogol, Karamzin, Lermontov, Pushkin, and Zhukovsky. S/U or letter grading.