| A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Contributor(s): Browning, Gary L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936235471 ISBN-13: 9781936235476 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| LCCN: 2010024816 |
| Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.43 lbs) 132 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. In Browning's study, the author identifies and analyzes previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned "linkages and keystones" found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna's momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky's disastrous steeplechase. Within this labyrinth of symbol, allegory and structural patterning lies embedded much of the novel's most significant meaning. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Russian literature, Tolstoy, symbol, allegory, structuralism, and moral criticism. |