2023 Fall

SLAVIC 134C 001 - LEC 001

Dostoevsky

Eric Naiman

Aug 23, 2023 - Dec 08, 2023

Tu, Th

11:00 am - 12:29 pm

Dwinelle 182

Class #:25906

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Slavic Languages and Literatures

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 3

Enrolled: 41

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 44

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Final Exam

WED, DECEMBER 13TH

08:00 am - 11:00 am

Dwinelle 182

Other classes by Eric Naiman

+ 1 Independent Study

SLAVIC 299 005 005IND

Course Catalog Description

A survey of the writer's principal artistic works, treated in relation to his life and to developments in Russian and European literature. Extensive outside reading required for this course.

This course will focus on Dostoevsky’s three great murder novels: Crime and Punishment , Demons and The Brothers Karamazov. We will read Dostoevsky’s books as novels of ideas and as works of literature, looking closely at the ways Dostoevsky develops ideas, characters, imagery and plot. Students will write two papers and take two exams, and, class size permitting, be responsible for initiating discussion once during the semester. Texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov These books are thrilling, unforgettable, moving, and long: the pages turn by themselves but there are still about two thousand of them.

Class Notes

Prerequisites: None. Classes and readings in English.

Students may select an additional unit of credit for reading in Russian (Slavic 100L) only if they will be currently enrolled in a fourth-year Russian class or its equivalent (i.e. a course in the 180 or 190 series).

Students may select an additional unit of credit for research (Slavic 100R) only if they have already read one of the novels on the syllabus in another class. show less