Reflective laughter : aspects of humour in Russian culture /
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| Imprint: | London : Anthem Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | xi, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthem Russian and Slavonic studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5541690 |
Table of Contents:
- Note on Transliteration
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tragicomic Principles in Pushkin's Drama 'The Covetous Knight'
- 3. Gogol as a Narrator of Anecdotes
- 4. Antony Pogorelsky and A. K. Tolstoi: The Origins of Kozma Prutkov
- 5. Comedy between the Poles of Humour and Tragedy, Beauty and Ugliness: Prince Myshkin as a Comic Character
- 6. The Young Lev Tolstoi and Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey: the Test of Irony
- 7. Fashioning Life: Teffi and Women's Humour
- 8. Two Facets of Comedic Space in Russian Literature of the Modern Period: Holy Foolishness and Buffoonery
- 9. Jokers, Rogues and innocents: Types of comic hero and author from Bulgakov to Pelevin
- 10. Escaping the Past? Re-reading Soviet Satire from the Twenty-first Century: the Case of Zoshchenko
- 11. Evgeny Zamiatin: The Art of Irony
- 12. Godless at the Machine Tool: Antireligious Humoristic Journals of the 1920s and 1930s
- 13. The Singing Masses and the Laughing State in the Musical Comedy of the Stalinist 1930s
- 14. The Theory and Practice of 'Scientific Parody' in Early Soviet Russia
- 15. Laughing at the Hangman: Humorous Portraits of Stalin
- 16. Varieties of Reflexivity in the Russo-Soviet Anekdot
- 17. Humour and Satire on post-Soviet Russian Television
- Notes
