Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina
by Vladimir E. Alexandrov and Vladimir Alexandrov
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
Cloth: 978-0-299-19540-3 | Paper: 978-0-299-19544-1 | eISBN: 978-0-299-19543-4 (all)
Library of Congress Classification PG3365.A63A44 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.733
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 quite unlike what one finds in other critical studies.
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