HNRS: Russian Literary and Film Theory
Fall 2019 Courses
Course:
RUSS 598 H10 22853
Course Attributes:
Humanities, EngLit
Instructor:
J Ogden
Location/Times(1):
HUMCB 104 on TR @ 02:50 pm - 04:05 pm
Registered:
3
Seat Capacity:
6
Reading and research on selected topics in Russian. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. CL: 2020.
Notes:
This course introduces concepts that have occupied Russian theorists (Tolstoy, the Formalists, Eisenstein, Bakhtin, Lotman, and more)—ideas that in many cases have become fundamental to literary and film theory worldwide: art as “infection”; art as “device”; montage; defamiliarization; laughter and carnival; the chronotope; monologic vs. dialogic discourse; primary and secondary modeling systems. We will trace the continuities (and forcible breaks) of literary and film theory in Russia and will consider the cultural context in which these artists worked. We will also question how Russian formalism, structuralism, and semiotics were different from their counterparts in the West.