A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

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.

Author: Gary L. Browning
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 08/01/2010
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9781936235476
ISBN10: 1936235471
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)

About the Author
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).