Limits to interpretation : the meanings of Anna Karenina /
Alexandrov, Vladimir E.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-346) and index.
An ethical argument for recognizing textual alterity -- A psychological argument for recognizing textual alterity -- Alterity and semiotics -- Jakobson's "metalingual function" and alterity -- Hermeneutic indices, or, Guides to textual alterity -- From theory to practice -- Early signals -- Reading readings, and art about art -- Art and metaphysics -- The formal implications of the novel's conception of art -- The problem of language -- Absolutism : claims about universal truth and morality -- Relativity : characters as arbiters of meaning and value -- Self and others -- The inner voice and conscience -- Essentialism -- Fate -- Literary form, fate, freedom, chance.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Hermeneutics.