A "labyrinth of linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina /
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| Author / Creator: | Browning, Gary. |
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| Imprint: | Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (130 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121984 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (130 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-125) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781618110039 1618110039 9781618116796 1618116797 1936235188 9781936235476 1936235471 1936235234 9781936235230 9781936235186 |