Funny Dostoevsky: New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian Light Side

"Funny Dostoevsky demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. Contributors go beyond traditional categories of humor, such as satire, parody, and the carnivalesque, to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky. These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment, the affective turn and hilarious (and deadly) impatience in Demons, ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot, and feminist approaches to Dostoevsky's funny and furious women"--