The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature - Rilegato

Livak, Leonid

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ISBN 10: 0804770557 ISBN 13: 9780804770552

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual 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. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers—Christian, secular, and Jewish—based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture.

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L'autore:

Leonid Livak is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Centre for Jewish Studies. He is the author of How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism (2003).

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Book by Livak Leonid

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0804770557
• ISBN 13: 9780804770552
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 498