Resonant Dissonance: The Russian Joke in Cultural Context

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 Chapter One Generic Provenance 20 Chapter Two Tradition and Contemporaneity 44 Chapter Three The Anekdot and Stagnation 63 Chapter Four Discursive Reflexivity in the Anekdot 83 Chapter Five Ethnic Reflexivity 95 Chapter Six Post-Stagnation Deflation, or the Afterlife of the Soviet Anekdot 121 Notes 141 Bibliography 181 Filmography 209 Index 211 Contents ...