ISBN:
9780192576835
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online Ressource (435 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.481
Keywords:
Comedy Social aspects
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Wit and humor Social aspects
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Communism and culture
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Politics and culture
;
Manners and customs
;
Wit and humor-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
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Soviet Union Social conditions
;
Soviet Union Social life and customs
Abstract:
Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.
Abstract:
Cover -- State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1: The Stalinist World of Laughter: The Fate of the Comic in a Tragic Age -- The Aesthetics of "Radical Populism": Political Dimensions -- "Russian Laughter" and the National Origins of the Stalinist "Popular Spirit" -- After the Carnival: "The Favorite Weapon" -- Victorious Laughter: The Origins of "Positive Satire" -- Harmonizing Laughter: A Dialectics of "Positive Satire" -- 2: A Killer Wit: Laughter in Stalinist Official Discourse -- The Beginning of the Plot -- Funny Activists -- A Funny Hunger Strike -- The Monster of Wit -- The Sense of an Ending -- 3: The Funny War: Laughing at the Front in World War Two -- Vasilii Terkin: The Typical and the Exceptional -- Vasilii Terkin: "Being" and "Just Being" -- Vasilii Terkin: All Is Well That Ends Well -- Erenburg's War, 1941-1945: A Question of Trust -- Erenburg's War, 1941-1945: Knowing What, and How Much -- Erenburg's War, 1941-1945: A Question of Perspective -- Erenburg's War, 1941-1945: Authenticity and (Self-)Parody -- Erenburg's War, 1941-1945: A Numbers Game -- 4: "One Might Think It Is a Ward in a Madhouse": Late Stalinism, the Early Cold War, and Caricature -- An Enemy in Pictures -- On the Typical -- Reflecting the Real Reality -- Hieroglyphics and Their Readers -- Scaling Down and the Logic of Wit -- An Enemy in Words -- Sardonic Realism: The Art of Verbal Caricature -- Adventures of Tropes: Political Trolling of the Pre-Internet Age -- From a "Negative Realism" to the "Realistic Grotesque" -- Modes of "Popular Democracy": Between Resentment and Bravado -- The Art of Double Entendre: Transference as a Satirical Device -- 5: The Gogols and the Shchedrins: Lessons in "Positive Satire" -- The Satire of the Impossible.
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