Modern Russian Culture and Folk Themes.

• St. Petersburg
• Literary fairy tales
• A few words about versification (poetic meter)
• Todorov's notion of modern fantastic vs. traditional magic.
• Revivalist art interested in folklore and mythology
• fakelore (Richard Dorson's article) and propaganda
• folk genres/themes and the Russian Revolution
• What is Marxism?
• What is socialist realism?
• cinema and uses of folk themes: Eisenstein, Kazanskii
• Music and Folk Themes
• New Year vs. Xmas
• Putin-era imperialism