A "labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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Author: Gary L. Browning

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936235186

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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 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.

A "labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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Author: Gary L. Browning

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936235476

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Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in "Anna Karenina," utilizing allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. Browning's study identifies and analyzes previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned "linkages and keystones" arising from Anna Karenina's momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and allegories rooted in Vronsky's disastrous steeplechase.

Anna Karenina and Others
Anna Karenina and Others

Author: Liza Knapp

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2016-07-31

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0299307905

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Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding Tolstoy's construction of his novel Anna Karenina and how he creates patterns of meaning. Her analysis draws on works that were critical to his understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives, including The Scarlet Letter, Middlemarch, and Blaise Pascal's Pens es. Knapp concludes with a tour-de-force reading of Mrs. Dalloway as Virginia Woolf's response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others.

Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13: 0198748841

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One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties. This major translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful.

Understanding Tolstoy
Understanding Tolstoy

Author: Andrew Kaufman

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Published: 2011

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780814211649

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Understanding Tolstoy recreates Tolstoy's lifelong artistic and spiritual journey, taking readers to the core of the writer's world through nuanced close readings of his major novels and novellas. Andrew D. Kaufman's broad and accessible analysis of Tolstoy's work speaks to the ways in which Tolstoy, despite living in a manner far removed from the experiences of most modern-day Americans, is still applicable and contemporary. From a reconstruction of Olenin's search for truth in The Cossacks to an illuminating analysis of Hadji-Murat's tragic last stand, Understanding Tolstoy brings to life the fascinating parallels between Tolstoy's personal quest and his characters' journeys. Whether writing about the ballrooms and battlefields of War and Peace or the spectrum of sexual and spiritual attachments in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy emerges as a vital, searching artist who continually grows and surprises us, yet is driven by a single, unchanging belief in universal human truths. Understanding Tolstoy is a treasure trove of critical and philosophical insights that will appeal to Tolstoy aficionados of all kinds, from advanced scholars to undergraduate students. The book offers an eminently readable guide to those entering Tolstoy's world for the first time or the tenth, and it invites them to grapple alongside the writer and his characters with the most urgent existential questions of our time, and all times.

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

Author: Donna Tussing Orwin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-09-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521520003

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Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Russia's Capitalist Realism
Russia's Capitalist Realism

Author: Vadim Shneyder

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0810142481

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Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia’s industrial revolution. During Russia’s first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of literary form for writers trying to make sense of economic change. The new environments created by industry, such as giant factories and mills, demanded some kind of response from writers but defied all existing forms of language. This book recovers the rich and lively public discourse of this volatile historical period, which Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov transformed into some of the world’s greatest works of literature. Russia’s Capitalist Realism will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth‐century Russian literature and history, the relationship between capitalism and literary form, and theories of the novel.

Framing Anna Karenina
Framing Anna Karenina

Author: Amy Mandelker

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0814206131

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Mandelker's revisionist analysis begins with the contention that Anna Karenina rejects the textual conventions of realism and the stereo-typical representation of women, especially in Victorian English fiction. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy uses the theme of art and visual representation to articulate an aesthetics freed from gender bias and class discrimination.

Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World
Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9004465634

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Joe Andrew and Robert Reid assemble thirteen analytical discussions of Tolstoi’s key works, written by leading scholars from around the world. The works studied cover almost the entire length of Tolstoi’s career; the analyses present unique insights into Tolstoi’s artistic world.