The ridiculous Jew the exploitation and transformation of a stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky

Summary: This title is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype in the works of three great writers of the 19th century. It examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ideological agendas of each writer.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804769853 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0804769850 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780804759526 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0804759529 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780804759526 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (ix, 254 p.)
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.