Status
C
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture
Term
2019A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML197401
Course number integer
197
Registration notes
Humanities & Social Science Sector
Meeting times
MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM
Meeting location
HAYD 360
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Molly Peeney
Description
This course will explore the theme of madness in Russian literature and arts from the medieval period through the October Revolution of 1917. The discussion will include formative masterpieces by Russian writers (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Bulgakov), painters (Repin, Vrubel, Filonov), composers (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky), and film-directors (Protazanov, Eisenstein), as well as non-fictional documents such as Russian medical, judicial, political, and philosophical treatises and essays on madness.
Course number only
197
Cross listings
RUSS197401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No