A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by Gary L Browning Phd
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 a 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.
"Recent scholarship has by and large taken Tolstoy’s reference to the "labyrinth of linkages" in Anna Karenina to indicate the dense and complicated network of interrelated an mutually illuminating images that create pathways to explicating the novel's many possible meaningsHowever, a labyrinth in the classical sense in unicursal: one sinuous route leads from the outside into the center. The hermeneutic of Gary L. Browning's book wore closely aligns with this second conception." -- Julie W. de Sherbinin, Colby College * The Russian Review *
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781936235186 |
| ISBN 10 | 1936235188 |
| Title | A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina |
| Author | Gary L Browning Phd |
| Series | Studies In Russian And Slavic Literatures Cultures And History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Academic Studies Press |
| Year published | 2010-08-19 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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