...Glenn Hughes Frank Whiteman Lindsay. New York: King's Crown Press, 1946. Pp. vi + 185. $3.00, paper. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 124 Revicws Dramatic Parody by Marionettes in 18th Century Park By FRANK WHITEMANLINDSAY. New York: King’s...

... is more often than not both Daedalus and Theseus-and we can learn a lot from both of him. ROBERTF. GLECKNER Duke University Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody. By DABNEYSTUART. Baton Rouge and Lon- don: Louisiana State University Press...

...John W. Velz Joan Hartwig. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. xii + 243 pp. $19.50. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 REVIEWS Shakespeare2 Analogical Scene: Parody as Structural Syntax. By JOAN H ARTW I Lincoln...

...EVERETT ZIMMERMAN Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE FUNCTION OF PARODY IN NORTHANGER ABBEY Most studies of Northanger Abbey have noted that the central prob- lem it poses for the critic is one of unity...

...Maximillian E. Novak Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 DEFOE’S SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS HOAX, PARODY, PARADOX, FICTION, IRONY, AND SATIRE By MAXIMILLIANE. NOVAK Defoe’s famous...

...James L. Calderwood Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 STRUCTURAL PARODY IN SWIFT’S FRAGMENT By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD Since 1949, when James L. Clifford wrote that Jonathan Swift’s Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, Etc...

... disordered nineteenth-century societies were transformed into superior future worlds. Because this utopian didacticism, inspired by Karl Marx, fell quickly out of fashion and was parodied ruthlessly by twentieth-century dystopias, it is hard to imagine how the form could be revived. However, the TV show...

.... The recirculation of her popular poem through citation and recitation, illustration and anthologization, prosody and parody, demonstrates a varied history of thinking through—simultaneously “about” and “in”—verse. References Barrett Browning Elizabeth . 1860 . “ A Musical Instrument .” Cornhill...

... of oneself as other than one is.” Chinese writers actively engaged with translated love stories to create their own literary works, some of them autobiographical, while others parodied the perceived romantic love found in translated love stories. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...

... from life as well as on earlier plays and drama tic conven lions. A case in point is the character of Adam Overdo in Jonson’s Barthol- ornew Fair. Gibbons clearly demonstrates that Overdo is a parody of the disguised-duke device so popular in early Jacobean comedy (pp. 179- 91). I...

..., as a burlesque of pastoral poetry in general, or as a Virgilian parody. In reply to these objections, it may readily be admitted that Pope was an interested party, and that in writing to Caryll he may have had some reason-whether spite, or vanity, or merely the instinctive mendacity of “one...

... a neglected, and somewhat puzzling, chapter in the early development of that poem. It has become clear, from Professor Til- lotson’s citations, that The Rape of the Lock, as a parody-epic, was incomplete (at the time of publication) even in its five-canto incar- nation, and that it would remain...

... and Theseus-and we can learn a lot from both of him. ROBERTF. GLECKNER Duke University Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody. By DABNEYSTUART. Baton Rouge and Lon- don: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. xiv + 191 pp. $1 1.95...

... in Stil und Motiven an diejenige Epoche seiner Entwicklung an, die dem ersten Weltkrieg und Manns Hu- manismus-glaubiger Epoche unmittelbar vorausging. Als Stilelement und als geistiges Motiv spielt die Parodie eine hochbedeutsame Rolle im Doktor Faustus. Zwar laat der Hennann Hesse...

... them” (p. 85). People’s behavior and sentiments act as a parody of the real world; such, it is suggested, is the nature of all action, all moralizing. But Wilde carries off this parody better than most of the playwrights whom we now describe as drama- tists of the absurd. He is never obvious...

... of the will that sacrifices the growth and becoming of the individual member to the slavish harmony of the whole. The source of Nietz- sche’s parody would appear to be the Pauline metaphor of the body and its members whose “head” is Christ. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul preaches the subjection of individual members...

... of the popular films of the 1930s and reworked as literature. At Republic Studios, West was producing hackwork that required him to rearrange conventional film material rather than invent anything new. Constructed on the model of his screenplays and treatments, West’s novel intricately parodies...

... for the exploration of these questions is the pageant. Mrs. Mariresa gives the first and most simple-minded explana- tion of the pageant (“ ‘Scenes from English history,’ Mrs. Manresa ex- plained to Mrs. Swithiri” [p. Xl and oiie of the furictioiis of the pag- eant is as a parody of history. The parody...

... us with a Jacobean sample of the traditional practice of parody upon the astrologer. In his introduction the editor offers an economical and effective survey of the standard almanac and prognostication, a background against which the satire itself shows clearly. As Mr. Allen states...

... . . . desired” (p. 12) religious ideals and related “masochistic” (pp. 56, 79, 95) emotions. Thus, for more traditional readers of Hopkins’s poetry, Harris’s reading of the poems as parodies may be provocative, if not offen- sive. For example, according to Harris, a poem such as “Carrion Comfort...