{"product_id":"resonant-dissonance-seth-graham-9780810126237","title":"Resonant Dissonance: The Russian Joke in Cultural Context","description":"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 (\u003ci\u003eanekdoty\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 \u003ci\u003eanekdot\u003c\/i\u003e exploited and exposed what Graham calls \"Soviet diglossia\" (official Sovietese vs. Russian everyday language) and emphasized the distance between official myths and quotidian reality. Jokes engaged a range of official and popular culture genres and also worked meta-textually, referring to the political consequences of jokes. While the dissidents of this period, who stressed the heroic and opposed everything Soviet, have been much written about, Graham's work on the \u003ci\u003eanekdoty--\u003c\/i\u003ewritten in the third person, ironic, and engaged with everything Soviet--fills a hole that has been overlooked in cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810126230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810126237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/30\/2009 pg. 20","brand":"Seth Graham","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448975634687,"sku":"9780810126237","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d6569fa-0c6a-4b81-90a3-2220034b10d9.jpg?v=1777261412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resonant-dissonance-seth-graham-9780810126237","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}