Estonia and Poland: creativity and tradition in cultural communication : volume 1 : jokes and their relations   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2134796B

  Author(s)

  Laineste, Liisi

  City

  Tartu 

  Country

  Estonia 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789949490202 

  Date of Publication

  2012 

  Publisher

  Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Teaduskirjastus  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  284 

  Series

  Estonia and Poland: creativity and tradition in cultural communication 1

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Laineste, Liisi

  Publisher

  Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Teaduskirjastus  

• Description

  This book deals with the creativity and tradition of cultural phenomena in the rapidly transforming post-socialist societies. Parallel research articles by Estonian and Polish authors set out to analyse media texts and other contemporary (folkloric) narratives in order to pin down the influence of political and economic changes on culture. Research material for Volume 1: Jokes and their relations includes primarily humour, but also proverbs and online aggressiveness. The results throw light on the similarities and differences in the ways cultural narratives have changed in the past decades and identity issues in the former Eastern Bloc are reflected in everyday texts, either online, on television, or in face-to-face communication. The analysis of culturally significant texts also helps to redefine the borders and influences of the local and the global in creativity and tradition.