Author : Gary L. Browning
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781936235476
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in "Anna Karenina," utilizing allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. Browning's study identifies and analyzes previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned "linkages and keystones" arising from Anna Karenina's momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and allegories rooted in Vronsky's disastrous steeplechase.
Author : Liza Knapp
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0299307905
Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding Tolstoy's construction of his novel Anna Karenina and how he creates patterns of meaning. Her analysis draws on works that were critical to his understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives, including The Scarlet Letter, Middlemarch, and Blaise Pascal's Pens es. Knapp concludes with a tour-de-force reading of Mrs. Dalloway as Virginia Woolf's response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others.
Author : Andrew Kaufman
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814211649
Understanding Tolstoy recreates Tolstoy's lifelong artistic and spiritual journey, taking readers to the core of the writer's world through nuanced close readings of his major novels and novellas. Andrew D. Kaufman's broad and accessible analysis of Tolstoy's work speaks to the ways in which Tolstoy, despite living in a manner far removed from the experiences of most modern-day Americans, is still applicable and contemporary. From a reconstruction of Olenin's search for truth in The Cossacks to an illuminating analysis of Hadji-Murat's tragic last stand, Understanding Tolstoy brings to life the fascinating parallels between Tolstoy's personal quest and his characters' journeys. Whether writing about the ballrooms and battlefields of War and Peace or the spectrum of sexual and spiritual attachments in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy emerges as a vital, searching artist who continually grows and surprises us, yet is driven by a single, unchanging belief in universal human truths. Understanding Tolstoy is a treasure trove of critical and philosophical insights that will appeal to Tolstoy aficionados of all kinds, from advanced scholars to undergraduate students. The book offers an eminently readable guide to those entering Tolstoy's world for the first time or the tenth, and it invites them to grapple alongside the writer and his characters with the most urgent existential questions of our time, and all times.
Author : Amy Mandelker
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0814206131
Mandelker's revisionist analysis begins with the contention that Anna Karenina rejects the textual conventions of realism and the stereo-typical representation of women, especially in Victorian English fiction. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy uses the theme of art and visual representation to articulate an aesthetics freed from gender bias and class discrimination.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004465634
Joe Andrew and Robert Reid assemble thirteen analytical discussions of Tolstoi’s key works, written by leading scholars from around the world. The works studied cover almost the entire length of Tolstoi’s career; the analyses present unique insights into Tolstoi’s artistic world.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1621968197
Author : Irina Reyfman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0299308308
How the status of Russian writers as members of the nobility, and their careers in service to the imperial state, shaped the course of Russian literature from Sumarokov and Derzhavin through Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoevsky.
Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521520003
Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307486265
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
