{"product_id":"anna-karenina-and-others-9780299307943","title":"Anna Karenina and Others","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Liza Knapp\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Russian \u0026amp; Soviet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its complex structure, \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Knapp provides a series of readings of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e that draw on other works that were critical to Tolstoy's understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives. Among the texts she considers are \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel of adultery with a divided plot; \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, a multiplot novel with neighborly love as its ideal; and Blaise Pascal's \u003ci\u003ePens�es\u003c\/i\u003e, which fascinated Tolstoy during his own religious crisis. She concludes with a tour-de-force reading of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e that shows Virginia Woolf constructing this novel in response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46483791610007,"sku":"9780299307943","price":2484.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780299307943.jpg?v=1766320811","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/anna-karenina-and-others-9780299307943","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}