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Wolfi and his father conspired, eyes meeting eyes, as they unleashed against the herd of voices parodic descants of their own invention.

Because they say that's where Chinese people come from,' the parodic voiceover of Si Milan's father says in the clip.

The series won plaudits from all sides, and its depiction of life in the White House, while slightly parodic, was acclaimed as the most authentic portrayal of how America's political system functions.

Other Thackeray works examined include Catherine, Barry Lyndon, and The Book of Snobs; ThackerayAEs use of satirical and parodic techniques is analyzed in these works.

Latham's next chapter, on postmodernist followers, focuses not on novels, but on two shorter parodic pieces and one novel excerpt.

This continuity is developed through examinations of McGrath's early short fiction (including the collection Blood and Water and Other Tales), his early and highly parodic Gothic novel The Grotesque, his chilling treatments of pathological first-person narrators (Spider, Dr.

Whereas Jonathas initially casts the priest's consecration as hocus pocus, used to obscure the absence of transubstantiation from the congregation, the play in turn casts Jonathas's parodic consecration as the real hocus pocus, attempting to obscure the real presence from the audience.

In the second section, he considers the transmutation of Yiddish drama from the advent of the purim-shpil at the end of the seventeenth century, addressing the adoption of theatre by Judaism despite ritual injunction, the parodic roots of the purim-shpil and its carnivalesque nature, the purim-rabbi, and the achievements of Yiddish theatre, and the various languages.

However, the game's cigarette paper-thin plot and omnipresent parodic tone struggle to retain their charm throughout.

The book provides a sophisticated, philosophically informed, and enjoyable analysis of poker, its "cultural resonance," and parodic relationship to contemporary, postindustrial capitalism.