Fall 2018  |  CSCL 5910 Section 001: Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature -- The Soviet Avant-Garde (34960)

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Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue 01:00PM - 03:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Armory Building 202
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 25 seats filled)
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Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL5910+Fall2018
Class Description:
In the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a diverse group of artists, philosophers, musicians, filmmakers, architects and writers worked to radically transform the cultural landscape of the newly socialized Soviet state and produce a fundamentally modern world. This course will first examine the height of the modernist Soviet avant-garde between the 1910s and 1920s up until its illegalization by Stalinist forces in the early 1930s. We will then place this diverse philosophical and aesthetic movement in trans-national and trans-historical contexts to understand its influence on movements ranging from African American dissident literature to Soviet nonconformist art between Khrushchev's "thaw" and Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika. We will closely read texts across various media to interrorgate concepts such as formalism, ideology, (socialist) realism, freedom of expression, and the nation. The course will include texts across media and from a variety of authors such as Eisenstein, Rodchenko, Mayakovsky, Zamyatin, Shostakovich, Groys, Boym, Komar and Melamid, Popova, and Kollantai. Movements to be considered include cosmism, constructivism, futurism, and others. Students will have the opportunity to present on class readings and write critical research essays.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34960/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 April 2018

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