<p>Lecture, three hours. Required for MA (literature). Survey devoted to emergence of critical and psychological realism, beginning with early works of Turgenev, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky, moving to major novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Saltykov-Shchedrin, and concluding with works of the presymbolist period, especially short stories of Chekhov. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Russian

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College of Letters and Science

The department offers a wide array of courses in the languages and cultures of Russia and of central and eastern Europe.

General Catalog

19th-Century Russian Literature: Age of Realism

RUSSN212B

4 units