Resonant dissonance
Subtitle: the Russian joke in cultural context
By: Seth Graham.
Series: Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian literature and theory; Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780810126237
Subjects: Russian wit and humor -- Social aspects; Russian wit and humor -- History and criticism; Political satire, Russian -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Generic provenance; title: Tradition and contemporaneity; title: The anekdot and stagnation; title: Discursive reflexivity in the anekdot; title: Ethnic reflexivity; title: Post-stagnation deflation, or the afterlife of the Soviet anekdot.