Lecture 1. Fiction, love, and death

Lecture 2. Ivan Turgenev: a Russian novelist; Relations in Fathers and sons

Lecture 3. Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons: love and death

Lecture 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: writing for life

Lecture 5. In and out of the underground (A reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground)

Lecture 6. Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment

Lecture 7. The power of compassion in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment

Lecture 8. Leo Tolstoy and the search for meaning in life

Lecture 9. Entering the labyright of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Lecture 10. Anna Karenina and the tangled skein of plot

Lecture 11. Love and death in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Lecture 12. Anton Chekhov: writer, doctor, humanist

Lecture 13. Chekhovian compassion: revisions of peasant life and adulterous love

Lecture 14. Love and death and the Russian point of view.