Course content

The course provides specialised study of five periods of Russian literary history: the golden age of Russian poetry (1800-1830); Russian realist prose (1830-1890); Russian Modernism (1890-1917); literature and its position during Soviet rule (1917-1991); and Russian literature after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 1991. To a certain extent, the student may choose to replace Russian literature from 1920 onwards with Soviet and post-Soviet film.