![]() We expected colleagues to have particularly strong feelings about adaptations that visualized Tolstoy’s plotlines and characters. Responses from colleagues are attached below. In a special issue of the Tolstoy Studies Journal: Anna Karenina for the Twenty-First Century (edited by myself, Emma Lieber, and Michael Denner), we consider the Joe Wright 2012 adaptation of the novel, as well as other contemporary adaptations in an effort to address the broader question: how does Anna Karenina speak beyond its time, and how does it address contemporary problems? We relate the novel to contemporary questions of sexuality and desire, performativity and authenticity, and even “The Kardashians”! In conjunction with this project, we initiated a dialogue on social media among about Anna Karenina film adaptations. Ani Kokobobo is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas
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