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Approaches to teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina / edited by Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker.

Van Pelt Library PG3365.A63 A69 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Knapp, Liza.
Mandelker, Amy.
Series:
Approaches to teaching world literature
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy, Leo.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Study and teaching.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Physical Description:
vi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Summary:
Anna Karenina is probably the most often taught nineteenth-century Russian novel in the American academy. Teachers have found that including this virtuoso work of art on a syllabus reaps many rewards and stirs up heated classroom discussion -- on sex and sexuality, dysfunction in the family, gender roles, society's hypocrisy and cruelty. But translation and transliteration problems, the peculiarity of Russian names and terms, and the unfamiliarity of Russian geography and history present a range of pedagogical challenges.
Contents:
A Note on Citation and Transliteration 1
Teaching Anna Karenina / Amy Mandelker 2
The Names / Liza Knapp 8
The Setting / Liza Knapp 24
Part 1 Materials
Russian Editions and English Translations / Liza Knapp 37
Recommended Readings for Instructors and Students / Amy Mandelker, Liza Knapp 47
Part 2 Approaches
Anna Karenina in Tolstoy's Life, Thought, and Times
Anna on the Installment Plan: Teaching Anna Karenina through the History of Its Serial Publication / William M. Todd III 53
The Daily Miracle: Teaching the Ideas of Anna Karenina / Gary Saul Morson 60
The Crisis in Tolstoy and in Anna Karenina / Gary R. Jahn 67
Law as Limit and the Limits of the Law in Anna Karenina / Harriet Murav 74
Motif-Mesh as Matrix: Body, Sexuality, Adultery, and the Woman Question / Helena Goscilo 83
Agrarian Issues in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as a "Mirror of the Russian Revolution" / Mary Helen Kashuba, Manucher Dareshuri 90
Tolstoy's Antiphilosophical Philosophy in Anna Karenina / Donna Orwin 95
Anna Karenina in the Literary Traditions of Russia and the West
Tolstoy versus Dostoevsky and Bakhtin's Ethics of the Classroom / Caryl Emerson 104
Anna Karenina and the Novel of Adultery / Judith Armstrong 117
Anna Reading and Women Reading in Russian Literature / David A. Sloane 124
Reading Anna: Opera, Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce / Julie A. Buckler 131
The Wedding Bell, the Death Knell, and Philosophy's Spell: Tolstoy's Sense of an Ending / Svetlana Evdokimova 137
Classroom Approaches to Anna Karenina
The Opening of Anna Karenina / Kate Holland 144
The Night Journey: Anna Karenina's Return to Saint Petersburg / Robert Louis Jackson 150
Anna's Dreams / Thomas Barran 161
The Moral Education of the Reader / Gina Kovarsky 166
Tolstoy Sees the Truth but Waits: The Consequences of Aesthetic Vision in Anna Karenina / Justin Weir 173
Anna Karenina through Film / Andrea Lanoux 180
Using Reader-Response Journals in Teaching Anna Karenina / Jason Merrill 187
Mapping Anna Karenina: A Creative Approach to Understanding the Novel / Mary Laurita 192
On a Scavenger Hunt in Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Linkages / Liza Knapp 198.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-221) and index.
ISBN:
0873529057
0873529049
OCLC:
50942100

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