Mandelker, Amy, Framing 'Anna Karenina': Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 1993) Morson, Gary Saul, Anna Karenina in our time: seeing more wisely (Yale University Press 2007) read parts at Google Books Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on...
Not unlike Dostoyevsky’s treatment of “paleness,” Tolstoy experiments with narrational blushing in a way untreated prior to Anna Karenina. Throughout the novel, Tolstoy’s characters either blush or flush at least 66 times, while paling only 5 times; that works out to a “blush-to-pale”...
Several passages in Anna Karenina suggest a reference to a blend of Socratic and Kantian ideas of virtue. Though Plato, our source for Socrates, and Kant are explicitly mentioned in the novel, we start our investigation not from these references, but from an incon...
What is the similarity between say,The Red and the Black,The Three Musketeers(by the way, I saw readers comparingThe Game of Kingswith this one and please, don’t even),Anna Karenina,StelloandLes Misérables? They’re classics, but they’re utterly readable. One does not need a textbook ...
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The peasant, in turn, alludes to a violent end not only to her individual life but of an approaching catastrophe to Karenina as a social mode of being. In addition to the possible Greek origin of the name Karenin, as remembered by the writer's son Sergei ...