RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Russian literature and primitive culture looks at Pushkin's fame and influence throughout the Soviet Union and beyond. Contempora ry, Romantic views of Orientalism, race, the noble savage, the boundaries between rural and urban cultures, and between the conquere r and the conquered, are surveyed. The confusion between author and hero in popular culture is examined. How did the Emancipation of the Serfs (1861) affect the portrayal of serfs, particularly female serfs, in Russian literature? Modernist work and its roots in f olk culture...[Read more]