Resonant Dissonance
The Russian Joke in Cultural Context
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2009
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-2623-7 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
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The late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes (anekdoty) about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. This work analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment.
In his original new study, Seth Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment. The late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes (anekdoty) about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. The cultural and political relaxation in the decade following Stalin's death produced considerable optimism among Soviet citizens. The anekdot exploited and exposed what Graham calls 'Soviet diglossia' (official Sovietese vs. Russian everyday language) and emphasized the distance between official myths and quotidian reality. While the dissidents of this period have been much written about, Graham's work on the anekdoty - written in the third person, ironic, and engaged with everything Soviet - fills a hole that has been overlooked in cultural history.
In his original new study, Seth Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment. The late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes (anekdoty) about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. The cultural and political relaxation in the decade following Stalin's death produced considerable optimism among Soviet citizens. The anekdot exploited and exposed what Graham calls 'Soviet diglossia' (official Sovietese vs. Russian everyday language) and emphasized the distance between official myths and quotidian reality. While the dissidents of this period have been much written about, Graham's work on the anekdoty - written in the third person, ironic, and engaged with everything Soviet - fills a hole that has been overlooked in cultural history.
Seth Graham is a lecturer in Russian in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2009 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
Verlagsort | Evanston |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 500 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8101-2623-0 / 0810126230 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-2623-7 / 9780810126237 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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