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oapen-20.500.12657-456172023-06-05T13:08:30Z A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" Browning, Gary L. Browning, Gary L. Arts Literary Criticism Allegory Anna Karenina Balashov (town) Frou-Frou (1955 film) Gladiator (2000 film) Leo Tolstoy Moscow Peasant Saint Petersburg Serfdom in Russia bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) 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. 2018-01-06 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-27 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:18:26Z 2020-04-01T13:18:26Z 2010 book 641411 OCN: 769190208 9781936235476;9781618116796 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45617 eng Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History application/pdf n/a 641411.pdf https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/a-labyrinth-of-linkages-in-tolstoys-anna-karenina Academic Studies Press Academic Studies Press 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj3n 101805 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj3n ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781936235476;9781618116796 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Academic Studies Press Boston, MA 101805 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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