Gary L. Browning

A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NOLO
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618110039
• Artikelnr.: 56998753

Autorenporträt

Gary L. Browning (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974) is Professor Emeritus at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Boris Pilniak: Scythian at a Typewriter (Penguin Group, 1985) and Leveraging Your Russian with Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes (Slavica, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Author's Note. Introduction. Chapter 1: Symbolism: The
Train Ride. Chapter 2: Symbolism: The Muzhik (Peasant). Chapter 3:
Allegory: The Steeplechase Participants. Chapter 4: Allegory: The
Steeplechase's Recurring Motifs. Chapter 5: Comparison of Early and Final
Drafts Containing the Steeplechase Allegory and the Muzhik Symbol.
Conclusion. Select Bibliography. Index.