A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
Browning, Gary L.
A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" - Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2010
Open Access
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 and allegory 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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English
j.ctt1zxsj3n 9781936235476;9781618116796
10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj3n doi
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Arts Literary Criticism Allegory Anna Karenina Balashov (town) Frou-Frou (1955 film) Gladiator (2000 film) Leo Tolstoy Moscow Peasant Saint Petersburg Serfdom in Russia
A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" - Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2010
Open Access
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 and allegory 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.
Creative Commons
English
j.ctt1zxsj3n 9781936235476;9781618116796
10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj3n doi
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Arts Literary Criticism Allegory Anna Karenina Balashov (town) Frou-Frou (1955 film) Gladiator (2000 film) Leo Tolstoy Moscow Peasant Saint Petersburg Serfdom in Russia