ENG 6355 Russian Novel
Readings in Gogol, Turgenev and Tolstoi, focusing chiefly on the major writings of Dostoevski as the novelist who incorporated the Russian myth into the Western tradition at a time of crisis and by so doing defined the limits of the novel: Dead Souls, Fathers and Sons, Anna Karenina, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov.