The Giants of Russian Literature : Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

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Call Number: BOCD 891.709 Kn Oversize
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Lecture 1. Fiction, love, and death -- Lecture 2. Ivan Turgenev: a Russian novelist; Relations in Fathers and sons -- Lecture 3. Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons: love and death -- Lecture 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: writing for life -- Lecture 5. In and out of the underground (A reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground) -- Lecture 6. Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment -- Lecture 7. The power of compassion in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment -- Lecture 8. Leo Tolstoy and the search for meaning in life -- Lecture 9. Entering the labyright of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Lecture 10. Anna Karenina and the tangled skein of plot -- Lecture 11. Love and death in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Lecture 12. Anton Chekhov: writer, doctor, humanist -- Lecture 13. Chekhovian compassion: revisions of peasant life and adulterous love -- Lecture 14. Love and death and the Russian point of view.
Professor Liza Knapp, lecturer.
Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores that tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov.
Compact disc.

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