Dostoevsky Brothers (in translation)

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This course is devoted to reading Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov , which includes the inserted narrative of “The Grand Inquisitor,” which is too often read in isolation from the novel as a whole. We will engage the text from theological, historical, philosophical, and narratological perspectives. Along the way, we will engage in the fascinating socio-historical context of the novel - a period of great reforms, active quests for social justice, and revolutionary movements that would lead to the assassination of the tsar the year after the novel was published, and to the Bolshevik Revolution less than forty years later. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement Satisfies an ENG seminar requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor Satisfies a requirement toward the Russian minor Satisfies a requirement toward the major in Russian Studies Satisfies a requirement toward the major in Russian Language & Literature