num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina
titlecomplete: Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press