Leo Tolstoy’s Later Works ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course will focus on Tolstoy’s famous later works ('The Death of Ivan Ilych,' The Kreutzer Sonata,' and the late great novella of Chechen courage, Hadji Murad), as well as polemical essays on art and religion ('A Confession'), and the last novel Resurrection . Students will unravel Tolstoy's radical ideas on narrative, history and the formation of a moral self, as well as poetics of his novelistic prose. This is course is an elective, advanced writing skills are required.