...Michelle Robinson This essay argues that by studying parodies of detective fiction from the turn of the twentieth century, one can envision a more complete history of the detective genre's development and the alternate paths it might have pursued. Mark Twain's A Double‐Barrelled Detective Story...

... in the critical discourse, the author uses Northrup Frye's definition of “the central principal of ironic myth” as a “parody of romance,” Mikhail M. Bakhtin's discussions of the grotesque and parody as “an integral element in Menippean satire and in all carnivalized genres,” and Charles A. Knight's chapters...

... Chinese culture known? Understanding translation through Judith Butler’s “performativity,” the article looks critically both at Yu’s poems and the texts he parodies, in particular those by Gary Snyder and Ezra Pound, in the context of works by John Ashbery, the Language poets, Jonathan Stalling, and Eliot...

... Golgotha is, thus, a late‐career synthesis in which Vidal parodies his own work as a historical novelist, thereby exposing the limitations of the form and its relationship to history. 2017210170@hust.edu.cn Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 historiographical metafiction...

... . The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2000 . Heath Chris . Pet Shop Boys, Literally . Harmondsworth : Viking/Penguin , 1990 . Hutcheon Linda . A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms...

..., puerilizations, and cut-price dreams than even an imbecilic imagination would know what to do with. But more profound than the real and the imaginary is parody. The Serie Noire has suffered from an over-abundant production, but it preserves a unity, a tendency, that periodically found expression in very...

... and the imaginary to something else. In "Philosophy of the Serie Noire" he calls this beyond "parody," while in Cinema 2, following Nietzsche, he calls it "will to power" that "substitutes the power of the false for the form of the true, and resolves the crisis of truth, wanting to settle it once...

... treble parts whenever these adolescents found it impossible to contain song of some kind.) "I can't hardly wait!" he exclaimed (3-4). This is evidently parody; an abundance of markers point to that conclusion - the corny idioms, the conspicuous cliches ("ascended briskly...

... is clearly aimed at specialists, who may find it provocative because it seemingly calls into question the genre of knight literature parody as a subject of study. Indeed, it demonstrates how the central theme of Quixote does not consist of anything more than to demonstrate, GENRE XXXIX - SPRING...

.... Kelley , 1971 . Hutcheon Linda . A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms . London : Metheun , 1985 . Jump John D. Burlesque . London : Metheun , 1972 . Kowaleski-Wallace Elizabeth . Their Fathers' Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth...

... of fetishism as a paradox, a pure construct that disavows its fabricated status, to inform and connect Trilby to turn-of-the-century Decadence. Indeed, while the novel pointedly invokes readily identifiable Decadent motifs in the figure of Svengali in order to parody them, it equally rehearses the tenets...

... but something like 1704, if June 16 did indeed fall on a Thursday of that year.1 This question about the date raises an interesting narratological issue with respect to the status of parody and pastiche and its relation to the fictional world of "Oxen of the Sun." From the early days of the chapter's...

... parallels, the first scene in which we see him directly, the Doctor sits on a stool beside the corpse of his dead wife (198)—a parody of the classical psychoanalytic session that, like Desiderio's necrophilic scene with Mary Anne, implicates psychoana- lytic theory with the fetishization of a female...

... : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1975 . Cadden Mike . “‘ Hey, I Get It!’ Parody in Children’s Literature .” Five Owls 18.4 ( 2006 ): 86 - 9l . Cart Michael . What’s So Funny? Wit and Humor in American Children’s Literature . New York : HarperCollins , 1995 . Chapman Antony J...

... novel Pamela (1740) jump-started the genre. Fielding parodied Richardson in Shamela and Joseph Andrews (both 1741). Richardson followed with the tragic Clarissa (1748), and Fielding with the "comic epic" Tom Jones (1749), both larger and more ambitious developments. Smollett's Humphry Clinker...

...-weariness give rise to the ludic, the parody. Post-apocalyptic fallout gave us Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (1963 Randy Newman's "Political Science" (1972), and Kate Bush's "Breath- ing" (1986); post-beat misfit indifference bore down on avant-garde jazz; drug- based psychosis bred...

... discontent — that the suburban novel already lambastes. Genres close down or open up possibilities. I want to read Expensive People as a different kind of parody, a historiographical metafiction that satirizes the suburban novel genre. This approach makes the best sense of this novel’s his- torical...

... into or even prior to recorded history to serve as a metaphysical basis and legitimation for the nation, its political projects, and its literary expressions.12 Now I am not suggesting that Lovecraft is intentionally parodying and thereby undermining the figurative basis of the nation-­form, since...

... painter flinging his brush at the canvas and spattering his work was still superior to the “freakish toil” of the cubists. He also wrote a lengthy parody of Eliot’s “Waste Land” (1922) titled “Waste Paper” (Lovecraft 2001a: 252 – 55) and criticized Eliot’s poem as “a prac- tically meaningless...

... helped to plant the trap of universalizing interpretations" (300). The novel presents what Huggan describes as being "in part a deconstruc- tive exercise in ethnographic parody, a series of pointedly exaggerated, at times caricatural, cultural (mis)readings aimed at a Western model reader confronted...