Now available: A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by Gary L Browning

[christa kling]

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A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

By Gary L. Browning

ISBN 978-1-936235-18-6 (cloth) $39.00 / £32.50
ISBN 978-1-936235-23-0 (paper) $19.00 / £15.99
132 pp., August 2010

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History

Bibliographic Data: 1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina. I. Title

Topic Areas: Literary Criticism, Tolstoy Studies

Level: Academic and General Reader

Summary: 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.  


Author: Gary L. Browning (Ph.D. Harvard University) 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). 

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9			
Author's Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .10
Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 1: Symbolism: The Train Ride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 
Chapter 2: Symbolism: The Muzhik (Peasant). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 3: Allegory: The Steeplechase Participants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
Chapter 4: Allegory: The Steeplechase's Recurring Motifs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Chapter 5: Comparison of Early and Final Drafts Containing 
the Steeplechase Allegory and the Muzhik Symbol. . ..103
Conclusion. . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Select Bibliography. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . .120
 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126


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All the best,

Christa Kling
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