Karenin’s ears, Grinevitch’s fingernails

Ewa Kraskowska
A b s t r a k t
The article focuses on the presence and function of bodily details in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The bodily detail is defined as a single part of the human body (e.g., the ear, the hand, the finger, the nail, the nape of the neck, the calf, a lock of hair) that is noticed by the characters in the novel and/or by the auctorial narrator. (...)