Rosenshield, Gary.

The ridiculous Jew the exploitation and transformation of a stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky / [electronic resource] : Gary Rosenshield. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008. - ix, 254 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Russian fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Jews in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.


Electronic books.

PG3098.3 / .R67 2008eb

891.73/3093529924046