No-one would believe someone as
parodic as this man could seriously be a contender for one of the highest offices in the world.
Instead of accepting McGrath's view that his later novels have broken from the Gothic mode altogether, Zlosnik persuasively claims that these novels can rather productively be recognized as continuations of his earlier Gothic revisionism, albeit as variations that offer less
parodic and more radical re-inventions of Gothic tropes than their earlier counterparts.
Barber have demonstrated the prevalence of
parodic structures in medieval culture, and these structures inform the Croxton Play.
The
parodic relationship with capitalism is developed in the later chapters.
Outside of Europe, Christian Spuck may be best known for his Le Grand Pas de Deux, a witty,
parodic gala favorite, but after 11 years as Stuttgart Ballet's resident choreographer, he is ready to step up to the next level.
Parody, translator Krystyna Anna Steiger remarks, is a complex form, and this book,
parodic in at least a couple of different ways, bears this out.
Mac Conglinne becomes a
parodic Christ figure: he is stripped, scourged, and forced to cut his own passion tree (cesadchrand, 1.
This is a fair point; but what happens when the
parodic text acquires an authority of its own--as, for example, with Vanity Fair, which has now become an essential part of the English literary canon?
Throughout the book the critic effectively identifies a "poetics of combative silence" among authors such as Marta Brunet, isabel Allende, and Sandra Cisneros, and this she divides into six distinct types: paradoxical, coded, hyperbolic, symbolic,
parodic, and cultural (226).
This book deals with two distinct corpuses, and adopts two lines of study: on the one hand, the author collects and examines expressly
parodic responses to Naturalism and the writing of Zola; on the other, she attempts to uncover an "autoparodic" dimension in a variety of later Naturalist texts, including works by Hennique, Huysmans, Bonnetain and Mirbeau.
Accordingly, each of her plays mixes humor (from downright farce to mordant irony) with daring
parodic forays into various speech genres--often, in the tradition of ecriture feminine, playfully intertwined--to offer a critical yet ultimately affirming perspective into the problems of mundane existence, the relations between men and women, family dynamics, or class struggles.
