Russia’s Golden Age: Literature, Arts, and Culture
SLAVIC 132
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Description
Explores major works of imperial Russian culture (1703-1917), including literature, drama, opera, ballet, music, visual arts, and architecture. At the center of this course stand the works themselves, their artistic qualities, and cultural-historical contexts, as well as the intentions of their creators, and the responses of their initial audiences. What mythologies of national identity did these works propose? In what ways were these works radical: formally, aesthetically, ideologically? How did these now-famous works achieve canonical status beyond their own time? How have these works been variously reinterpreted since then? Works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others.
Course Notes
All readings in English. Students who wish to read Russian texts in the original may attend a special weekly section with the instructor.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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