A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina |
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| Author:
| Browning, Gary L. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-306-15302-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $46.80 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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."