<p>Seminar, three hours. Selected authors and works from 19th-century Realist poetry, prose, and drama. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Russian

College of Letters and Science

Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures

RUSSN 292B - 19th-Century Russian Literature (Age of Realism)

19th-Century Russian Literature (Age of Realism)

Formulate a specific, answerable research question within a topic of your choosing and present this question, along with an assessment of its significance, in an engaging oral presentation.

Describe some of the key trends in contemporary scholarly research on nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture.

Synthesize your research in secondary sources into a concise literature review (such as those found in scholarly journal articles and doctoral dissertations).

Write an abbreviated (10–15-page) research article on the research question you have chosen.

Identify a prospective research topic by surveying the existing scholarly literature, identifying major trends and lacunae in the published research.

Critically read scholarly journal articles in your field and identify both their key content (major claims, evidence presented, relationship to the existing literature) and the form in which this content is presented.

General Catalog

19th-Century Russian Literature (Age of Realism)

RUSSN 292B

4 units