Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina

by Vladimir E. Alexandrov

Book Overview

Vladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation inherent in the act of reading. He illustrates this method with the example of Tolstoy's classic novel via a detailed "map" of the different possible readings that the novel can support. The novel Anna Karenina emerges as deeply conflicted, polyvalent, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299195449
• ISBN13: 9780299195441
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"