The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination : A Case of Russian Literature.
Title:
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination : A Case of Russian Literature.
Author:
Livak, Leonid.
ISBN:
9780804775625
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (513 pages)
Series:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: The Western Wall of Russian Literature -- I. The Generative Model of "the jews" -- 1. "The jews" in Christian Theology and Myth -- 2. Archetypal Elaboration -- 3. Animal Symbols and Human Types -- 4. The Semiotics of the "jewish" Body -- II. How Gogol's Iankel' Is Made -- 5. "Taras Bul'ba" in Context -- 6. The Theology of Archetypes in "Taras Bul'ba" -- 7. The Opponent -- 8. The Eschatology of "Taras Bul'ba" -- 9. The Temptation of Taras -- 10. The Helper -- III. The Discreet Pleasures of Liberalism -- 11. Liberalism, Modernity, and Semi(o)tic Chaos -- 12. Ivan Turgenev's Crime and Punishment -- 13. Uncle Iankel's Cabin -- 14. Of Chekhov and Garlic -- IV. Concerto for Flute Without Orchestra -- 15. Reb Goethe and the Problematics of Russian-Jewish Authorship -- 16. Isaak Babel's Portrait of the Artist as a Former Jew -- 17. Writing and Reading in the Margins: Iurii Fel'zen's Significant Absences -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
This book argues that the representation of Jews in European literature has little to do with actual, human Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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