2020 Fall SLAVIC 134D 001 LEC 001

2020 Fall

SLAVIC 134D 001 - LEC 001

Tolstoy

Eric Naiman

Aug 26, 2020 - Dec 11, 2020
Tu, Th
11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Internet/Online
Class #:31049
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: Remote Instruction

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0
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Hours & Workload

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

Final Exam

WED, DECEMBER 16TH
08:00 am - 11:00 am

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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.

Class Description

Most of the semester will be devoted to Tolstoy’s two novelistic masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. We will also explore some of Tolstoy’s early fiction and one or two of his later works. Workload: substantial and intense weekly readings; two papers (5-8 pages), a midterm essay and a final examination (focused on close reading of the texts). Texts include: Childhood; War and Peace (the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation), Anna Karenina (the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation); several short stories. Leo Tolstoy. Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. Modern Library. Random House, 0-375-75944-1 Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Penguin, 978-0-14-303500-8 Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy’s Short Fiction. Norton Critical Edition, 978-0393931501 Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. Vintage, 978-1400079988 With concurrent enrollment in Slavic 100R (1 unit), students can write a research paper (10-15 pages) on a topic of individual choice (enrollment in the research unit, upon instructor’s approval, will be open in the Fall).

Class Notes

Prerequisites: None. Required readings and lectures in English. Students with advanced knowledge of Russian are encouraged to do at least some reading in Russian.

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills

Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Meets Philosophy & Values, L&S Breadth

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

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