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Continuation of introduction to Russian grammar.
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Continuation of introduction to Russian grammar.
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This course is a continuation of Russian 10. It is an accelerated study of contemporary Russian language and
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Continuation of intermediate Russian with focus on
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Reading in Russian literature in the original;
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This course offered only to participants in the Duke in
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This course is offered to the Duke in Russia Study Abroad
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This course will introduce you to a representative selection of Russia's extraordinary fairy tales in their cultural and social context. Because Russian culture is steeped in folklore and fairy and folk tales, the stories we will examine will provide you with essential keys to many important motifs and plots in Russian poetry, fiction, drama, ballet, opera, film, decorative folk art, and popular culture. You will be learning how to analyze these tales as oral art; expressions of vestigial folk belief (you will be reading all about Russia's pre-Christian pagan good and evil spirits); explorations of the human psyche; and stylized reflections of social norms (notions of heroism and villainy, family relations, prescribed gender roles). As we sample different thematic groups of tales (e.g., stepmother-stepdaughter tales, sibling tales, "foolish" third son tales, Âwise maiden tales), we will discuss how these plots relate to those of fairy tales we know and how fairy tale plots are constantly reworked in our own culture.
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This course is for those students participating in the
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Millions of people died during the Âgreat terror (late 1930s) in the Soviet Union and the terror continued to affect people in Soviet society for many years to come; the Gulag system of corrective labor camps lasted until the 1980s. In this course, we will explore this significant yet little studied historical/cultural event, through diaries, memoirs, films, historical texts, and literary works. Our aim is to study the time of the terror and its effects as well as to understand the mechanisms and psychology of terror: why was it effective? What kinds of resistances did people make? What effects does this have today in the Soviet Union and the world? (Some scholars have argued that the fall of the Soviet Union was directly related to increased openness about the Gulag system.)
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The origins and development of the revolutionary and experimental cinema in Russia during the last years of the Empire and after the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Films include the classics of the silent Soviet cinema directed by Eisenstein as well as other films by other influential directors. The transition into the Stalinist cinema of the 1930s and comparisons with Hollywood films of that era.
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Close reading of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," Dostoevsky's
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This course will concentrate on the development of the Russian novel. Topics covered include the special nature of the writer in Russian culture, issues of gender, censorship and its effect on literature, the quest for a hero and for a heroine, Moscow and St. Petersburg, the relationship between Russian writers and critics, and the interrelationships of literature and society.
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"Dostoevsky with the Gloves Off": This course is a
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Continuation of advanced grammar review and
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Refinement of stylistic control and range in spoken and
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The theory of literature, arts ethnicity, modernity and
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