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Anna Karenina and others : Tolstoy's labyrinth of plots / Liza Knapp.

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With its complex structure, Anna Karenina places special demands on readers who must follow multiple plotlines and discern their hidden linkages. In her well-conceived and jargon-free analysis, Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding how the novel is constructed, how it creates patterns...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Knapp, Liza (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910. > Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Russian literature > Western influences.
Comparative literature > Russian and American.
Comparative literature > American and Russian.
Comparative literature > Russian and European.
Comparative literature > European and Russian.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910.
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The estates of Pokrovskoe and Vozdvizhenskoe : Tolstoy's labyrinth of linkages in Anna Karenina
  • 2. Anna Karenina and the Scarlet letter : Anna on the scaffold of the pillory and Levin with his own red stigma
  • 3. Loving your neighbor in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina : varieties of multiplot novels
  • 4. Loving your neighbor, saving your soul : Anna Karenina and English varieties of religious experience
  • 5. The eternal silence of infinite spaces : Pascal and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
  • 6. Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy on double plot and the misery of our neighbors : for whom the bell tolls in Mrs. Dalloway and Anna Karenina.

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