Format:
1 Online-Ressource (130 pages)
ISBN:
1618110039
,
1618116797
,
1936235188
,
1936235471
,
1936235234
,
9781936235476
,
9781618110039
,
9781618116796
,
9781936235230
,
9781936235186
Series Statement:
Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
Content:
Symbolism: the train ride -- Symbolism: the muzhik (peasant) -- Allegory: the steeplechase participants -- Allegory: the steeplechase's recurring motifs -- Comparison of early and final drafts containing the steeplechase allegory and the muzhik symbol.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-125) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Browning, Gary Labyrinth of linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Brighton, Mass : Academic Studies Press, 2010
Language:
English
