DOSTOEVSKY

SLAVIC 420

Examine works of Anton Chekhov in their literary, historical, and cultural context.

SLAVIC 421

Examine works of Nikolai Gogol in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts.

LITTRANS 222

Dostoevsky's works are direct encounters with the "accursed questions" of life, love, evil, violence, sex, death and the other usual suspects; main focus will be on the individual reader's close encounter with the aesthetics and ethics of these works.

SLAVIC 424

Examine works of Leo Tolstoy in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts.

SLAVIC 245

Exploration of various topics - periods, genres, individual writers, themes, problems, etc. in Russian and Eastern European literature.