RU 152 Revolutionary Literature in a Revolutionary Society: Russian Modernism, 1880-Present

Instructor:	Professor KEVIN MOSS
Office:	Freeman FIC TL 8
Office Hours:	MW 1-2 and by appointment
Office Phone:	5786
Email Address:	moss@middlebury.edu
Home Phone:	388-9664

This course introduces students to the exciting new experiments of Russian authors reacting to Russia's Golden Age masters. Discussion supplemented by brief lectures will focus on outstanding works representing various styles and techniques developed to give new life to the Russian literary experience. Examples will be chosen from the literatures of decadence, symbolism, utopianism, and socialist realism, as well as the civil war, thaw, protest, and post-Soviet periods. LIT EUR