A "labyrinth of linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina [[electronic resource] /] / Gary L. Browning

• Record Nr.: UNISA996328046103316
• Autore: Browning Gary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brighton, Mass., : Academic Studies Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-61811-679-7; 1-936235-47-1; 1-61811-003-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (132 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
• Disciplina: 891.73/3
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Anthologies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [120]-125) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Symbolism: The Train Ride -- Chapter 2. Symbolism: The Muzhik (Peasant) -- Chapter 3. Allegory: The Steeplechase Participantsts -- Chapter 4. Allegory: The Steeplechase's Recurring Motifs -- Chapter 5. Comparison of Early and Final Drafts Containing the Steeplechase Allegory and the Muzhik Symbol -- CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.