SLA 531 Russian Ornamentalist Prose
Topics in Russian Literature or Literary Theory: Russian Ornamentalist Prose
Professor(s): Olga P. Hasty

Description/Objectives:
This seminar focuses on a series of texts that may be designated "ornamentalist." The readings include both modernist prose of the experimental period of "revolutionary romanticism" and earlier writings whose style is granted unprecedented autonomy and freed from subservience to narrative. The consequences to text and reader of the disruption of conventional distinctions between techniques of poetry and prose will be considered.

Sample Reading List:
N. Gogol , Selected Stories
Leskov , Selected Stories
Belyi , Peterburg
Pilniak
Babel' , Konarmiia

Other Requirements:
Course Not Open to Freshmen

Other Information: Requirements: seminar reports throughout the semester, one final paper (15-20 pp.).

Schedule/Classroom Assignment:
Class Number: 20098 - Seminar S01 : 1:30 pm - 4:20 pm Th