1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820637503321

Autore

Rosenshield Gary

Titolo

The ridiculous Jew : the exploitation and transformation of a stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky / / Gary Rosenshield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8047-6985-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

891.73/3093529924046

Soggetti

Russian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Jews in literature

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.