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Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Browning, Gary L., Ph.D.
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Description for Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Hardback. The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in "Anna Karenina" (1878). This title identifies and analyses '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. Num Pages: 132 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 analyses 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 and allegory lies embedded much of the novel's most significant meaning. This study will be ... Read more
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 analyses 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 and allegory lies embedded much of the novel's most significant meaning. This study will be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235186
SKU
V9781936235186
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About Browning, Gary L., Ph.D.
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).
Reviews for Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
"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 meanings. However, a labyrinth in the classical sense in unicursal: one sinuous route leads from the outside into the center. The ... Read more