Starry Skies, Awful Hieroglyphs, and Eternal Silence: Philosophical Lyricism in Anna Karenina

Professor Knapp is a scholar and professor of 19th and 20th-century Russian literature. Her specialties include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, early 20th-century Russian poetry, literature and science; and literature and religion. Among her books are The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics; and Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots.