{"title":"On the History of an Anecdote","authors":"E. Kostiukhin, J. Bailey, J. Leary","doi":"10.17161/FOLKLORICA.V21I0.7708","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the historical antecedents to the Russian anecdote which remarks on the reactions by various nationalities’ to finding a fly in their soup and considers the function of such anecdotes in their popular usage.","PeriodicalId":359705,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17161/FOLKLORICA.V21I0.7708","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article explores the historical antecedents to the Russian anecdote which remarks on the reactions by various nationalities’ to finding a fly in their soup and considers the function of such anecdotes in their popular usage.