RUSS 0090 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fokker E.Ii, Oberiu, Totalitarianism
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Epic poems about legendary heroes: performed by minstrels in the middle ages c. c. i. Nightingale the robber / the first adventure of ilya c. ii. Defeats nightingale the robber, an anthropomorphic monster that can knock people out by shrieking, then steals from them c. iii. 3. More fairy tale influence than kievan epics d. iii. About a musician who made a deal with the sea tsar to become a rich merchant in the underworld d. iv. He returns to novgorod: 19th century, romanticism a. i. Aesopian language b. v. died in a duel over his wife, whom russia also loves: orientalism c. i. Used exoticism to pretend to be dominant c. i. 1. c. ii. Second most important russian romantic after pushkin d. ii. Blamed pushkin"s death of everything wrong with russia d. iii. Karl marx and friedrich engel: basic beliefs: b. i. Change as the fundamental status of humanity b. ii. Socialist society will be the next step b. iii.
