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The ridiculous Jew : the exploitation and transformation of a stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky / Gary Rosenshield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenshield, Gary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Russian fiction.
- Jews in literature.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and the Ridiculous Jew: A Study in the Exploitation and Transformation of the Jewish Stereotype is a study devoted to exploring the dynamic use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Taras Bulba : Gogol's ridiculous Jew, form and function
- Taras Bulba and the Jewish literary context : Walter Scott, Gogol, and Russian fiction
- Taras Bulba otherwise : deconstructing Gogol's Cossacks and Jews
- "The Jew" : Turgenev and the poetics of Jewish death
- Notes from the house of the dead : ridiculous Jew, existential Christian, hagiographic Muslim, and the intentional text
- Notes from the house of the dead : Dostoevsky's ridiculous Jew and the critics
- Notes from the house of the dead : the other Isay Fomich : subversion and the revenge of the stereotype
- Confronting the legacy of the stereotype : Babel, Rybakov and Jewish death.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804769853
- 0804769850
- OCLC:
- 793166881
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