Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2018

HONORS 240 B: Russia's Big Books: Close Reading of "The Brothers Karamozov" (A&H)

HONORS 240 B: Russia's Big Books: Close Reading of "The Brothers Karamozov" (A&H)

Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students

First of the "Russia's Big Books" series.

Crime Fiction. Religious Parable. Masterpiece. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel has garnered all those descriptions, and many more. This course will spend 10 weeks with “The Brothers Karamazov,” exploring it’s sources and themes as well as Its author’s views on a rapidly modernizing 19th-century Russia. We will also consider this work’s lasting legacy in world literature and culture.