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Author Knapp, Liza, author

Title Anna Karenina and others : Tolstoy's labyrinth of plots / Liza Knapp
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 326 pages)
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
Summary 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 of meaning, and why it is much more than Tolstoy's version of an adultery story. Knapp provides a series of readings of Anna Karenina that draw on other works that were critical to Tolstoy's understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives. Among the texts she considers are The Scarlet Letter, a novel of adultery with a divided plot; Middlemarch, a multiplot novel with neighborly love as its ideal; and Blaise Pascal's Pensees, which fascinated Tolstoy during his own religious crisis. She concludes with a tour-de-force reading of Mrs. Dalloway that shows Virginia Woolf constructing this novel in response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
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Subject Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 fast
Tolstoj, Lev Nikolaevič 1828-1910 Anna Karenina gnd
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast
Subject Russian literature -- Western influences
Comparative literature -- Russian and American
Comparative literature -- American and Russian
Comparative literature -- Russian and European
Comparative literature -- European and Russian
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Comparative literature -- American and Russian
Comparative literature -- European and Russian
Comparative literature -- Russian and American
Comparative literature -- Russian and European
Ehebruch Motiv
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299307936
029930793X