Justice, Desire, and Narrative Irony in Anna Karenina: A Russian Formalist Study of Structural Duality and Narrative Engineering
I. The Novel as Dual-System Architecture Within Russian Formalist analysis, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is not primarily a moral tragedy of adultery or a psychological portrait of doomed love. It is better understood as a dual-system narrative architecture, in which two parallel storylines are structurally engineered to produce contrastive meaning. The novel’s famous opening line about […]