Middlebury

RUSS 6767

Contem Russia in Mirror of Lit

Contemporary Russia in the Mirror of Literature
This course is dedicated to the study of the most politically relevant texts of contemporary post-Soviet literature. Students will read short works of Viktor Pelevin, Tatyana Tolstaya’s anti-utopian novel Kys, Pelevin’s latest sharply political novel Den’ oprichnika, and short works of the Russian-Israeli writer Dina Rubina. Students will analyze the political connotations of the texts and their polemical strategies. Our study of post-Soviet reality, as well as postmodernist techniques, contemporary language, neologisms, and slang could prove especially fascinating and useful to students.
Subject:
Russian
Department:
Russian
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Literature

Sections in Summer 2015 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2015 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session

RUSS6767A-L15 Lecture (Proskurina)