Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new anthology, which provides an unparalleled introduction to theparodist's art. The classics of the genre are all here, from Lewis Carroll toMax Beerbohm; but so are scores of lesser known but scarcely less gifted figures, and brilliant contemporaries such as Craig Brown and Wendy Cope. At everystage there are surprises. Chaucer celebrates Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Proust visits Chelsea, Yeats re-writes 'Old King Cole', Harry Potter encounters Mick Jagger, a modernized Sermon on the Mount rubs shoulders with an obituary of Sherlock Holmes. The collection provides a hilarious running commentary on literary history, but it also looks beyond literature in the narrow sense to take insuch things as advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare, and a scientific hoax INDICE: PART ONE; Parodies of individual authors by parodists including: Max Beerbohm, Robert Benchley, Alan Bennett, Irving Berlin, John Betjeman,Bret Harte, Anthony Hecht, Clive James, H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, James Thurber, John Updike, Peter Ustinov, Evelyn Waugh; Parodied authors include: Chaucer,Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, Longfellow, Tennyson,Emily Dickinson, Hardy, Wilde, Conan Doyle, Yeats, Woolf, A. A. Milne, Lawrence, Marianne Moore, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Cole Porter, e. e. cummings, Hemingway, Auden, Larkin, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Heaney, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, J. K. Rowling; PART TWO; From the Wider World [foreign authors]; Nursery Rhymes; Tories and Radicals; The Young Jane Austen;Ripostes; Alice [Lewis Carroll]; James Joyce as Parodist; Composites; Stage and Screen; Artistic Endeavours; The Written Word; Draynfleete; Affairs of State; The Sokal Hoax; Two Tributes; A Mixed Assembly
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954882-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 31/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés