|
|
|
COLT 407/507 Professor James Rice describes the course: "One comes to literature by devious routes," as Graham Greene recalled (A Sort of Life). The same can be said for national literatures making their way to civilization—a two-way street. This course maps the late arrival of Russian fiction in world literature, its advance within one generation to a dominant role in Europe, and its fate in the 20th century. Our focus is on three major comparative cases: (1) Europe’s impact on Russia: Byron and Pushkin; (2) Russia’s impact on the West: Turgénev and Henry James; (3) parallel modernist phenomena: Bely and Joyce. Comparative aspects of other Russian prose masters will be discussed:
|
|
|
