The ridiculous Jew
Subtitle: the exploitation and transformation of a stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
By: Gary Rosenshield.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780804759526
Subjects: Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Jews in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taras Bulba : Gogol's ridiculous Jew, form and function; title: Taras Bulba and the Jewish literary context : Walter Scott, Gogol, and Russian fiction; title: Taras Bulba otherwise : deconstructing Gogol's Cossacks and Jews; title: "The Jew" : Turgenev and the poetics of Jewish death; title: Notes from the house of the dead : ridiculous Jew, existential Christian, hagiographic Muslim, and the intentional text; title: Notes from the house of the dead : Dostoevsky's ridiculous Jew and the critics; title: Notes from the house of the dead : the other Isay Fomich : subversion and the revenge of the stereotype; title: Confronting the legacy of the stereotype : Babel, Rybakov and Jewish death.