RUSS 391Great Russian Novels
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1977–78 to 1994–95 (before that, 1968–69 to 1976–77 used the number for Russian Literature in Translation and Great Russian Novels From Pushkin to Dostoevsky (Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Gogol: Dead Souls, Turgenev: Fathers and); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Reading and interpretation of 19th century novels selected from the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and © Tolstoy. Lectures on social and intellectual background. Taught in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to all students.
As printed in the 1977–78 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1977–78 to 1994–95 17 calendars
Reading and interpretation of 19th century novels selected from the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and © Tolstoy. Lectures on social and intellectual background.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1977–78 PDF p. 320
- 1978–79 PDF p. 313
- 1979–80 PDF p. 324
- 1980–81 PDF p. 339
- 1981–82 PDF p. 350
- 1982–83 PDF p. 327
- 1983–84 PDF p. 342
- 1984–85 PDF p. 343
- 1985–86 PDF p. 352
- 1987–88 PDF p. 372
- 1988–89 PDF p. 369
- 1989–90 PDF p. 388
- 1990–91 PDF p. 392
- 1991–92 PDF p. 400
- 1992–93 PDF p. 395
- 1993–94 PDF p. 397
- 1994–95 PDF p. 399
1974–75 to 1976–77 3 calendars
Another title: Great Russian Novels From Pushkin to Dostoevsky (Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Gogol: Dead Souls, Turgenev: Fathers and, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
‘Sons, Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, and
others).
Themes especially emphasized will be: the complex society, its merits, responsibility or guilt in relation to the individual; East-West confrontation; reform ideas; Nihilism; the superfluous man; tears behind laughter, etc.
This course is taught in English One term, 3 lectures Open to all students
Not in the 1972–73 to 1973–74 calendars.
1968–69 to 1971–72 4 calendars
Another title: Russian Literature in Translation, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
From Pushkin to Dostoevsky. Prerequisite: At least one course in any other literature. One term. 3 lectures.