The giants of Russian literature Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (Modern scholar)
by Knapp, Liza.
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Summary
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. Full description
- 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.