SEMANTYKA WYRAZU „OGIEŃ” W ANNIE KARENINIE LWA TOŁSTOJA
THE SEMANTICS OF THE WORD „FIRE” IN ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY

Summary/Abstract: In the seventies Leo Tolstoy concentrated his attention on the ћегоеs with a crystallized psyche, tragic individuals looking for the sense of life and convulsing between extreme moods and decisions. This tendency determined the ways of psychological analysis (in particular in Anna Karenina). The writer took an interest first of all in the final results of psychological process. He also applied a number of indirect ways of psychological characterization (among other things symbolism, allusion and metaphor). A definite place was occupied in it by the word fire together with a number of related concepts which create a semantic field of this word. The author of the article proves that it occupied for the first time an important place just in Anna Karenina. This field will also be developed and made more thorough and deeper in the later works of Tolstoy, uniting with the concept of good and altruistic love.

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