Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Slavic (SLAV)

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SLAV 331   RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM       Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
his course includes a broad survey of postcolonial theories starting with
Edward Said and including Homi Bhabha, Leela Gandhi, Fayatri Spivak, Michael
Hechter, Helen Tiffin and others. The course is based on Ewa M. Thompson
Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism published by Greenwood
in 2000. Lietrary readings include Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace; Alexander
Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman" and "Journey to Arzrum"; Valentine Rasputin's "Live
and Remember" and other stories; Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat;
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward; Ludmila Petrushevskaya's "Night", Tatiana
Tolstaia's Sleepwalker in a Fog; and Valeiya Novodvorskaya's essays Also
offered as RUSS 331.
001 RH 302 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Thompson, Ewa M.          Enr: 2 Max: 0

SLAV 411   MODERN POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION      Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course presents the living poets of Poland, from Nobel Prize winners
Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996) to their youngest
competitors, Krzysztof Koehler and Maciej Swietlicki. The course explores how
resistance and collaboration, Catholicism and Communism, have shaped and
continued a major literary tradition of Europe basing on a selection of poetry
in English translations.  Also offered as Russ 411.
001 RH 302 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Skorczewski, Dariusz      Enr: 9 Max: 0

SLAV 450   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Content varies depending on student interests and availability of instructors.
001 TBA - TBA                           Skorczewski, Dariusz      Enr: 3 Max: 0