Author: Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: kitsch, parody, translation, lorca, apocryphal
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0226512037
ISBN-13: 9780226512037
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) had enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. In large numbers, these poets have not only translated his works, but written imitations, parodies, and pastiches—along with essays and critical reviews. Jonathan Mayhew’s Apocryphal Lorca is an exploration of the afterlife of this legendary Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States. The book examines how Lorca in English translation has become a
Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: intertextuality, parody, television, simpsons, watching
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415362024
ISBN-13: 9780415362023
Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. Including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has been able to talk back to three of television’s key genres - the sitcom, adverts and the news - and on how it holds the potential to short-circuit these genre’s meanings, power, and effects by
Author: Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: new, cultural, studies, sade, parody, orgy, power, writing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0812215907
ISBN-13: 9780812215908
Writing the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade’s writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from anthropology, history, and psychoanalysis, the book is a brilliant feminist reading of a text—The Story of Julliete—often characterized as brutally aggressive and pornographic.
Authors:Joe Garden, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, Anita Serwac
Publisher: Villard
Keywords: parody, cats, book, devious
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0345508491
ISBN-13: 9780345508492
Cats have nine lives. Shouldn’t they be lived to the fullest?“Domesticated” does not mean “docile.” The ho-hum routine of sleep, eat, eat, and sleep is no way for any creature who ruled Egypt for a millennium to spend her day. It’s high time felines everywhere woke up from their cat naps and grabbed life’s strings with both paws.The Devious Book for Cats offers today’s discerning kitties words of wisdom and advice on everything they need to know, from in-depth guides on cardboard boxes and catnip to a brief history of the Felinism movement. It provides fail-safe tips on waking
Author: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: study, popular, culture, contributions, saga, film, genre, give, parody
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0313261865
ISBN-13: 9780313261862
Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and celebrate its value, are examined. Parody is differentiated from satire, and the two parody types, traditional and reaffirmation, are explained. Chapters study the most spoofed genre in American parody history, the Western; pantheon members of American Film Comedy such as The Marx Brothers, W. C. Fi
Authors:Joe Garden, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, Anita Serwac
Publisher: Villard
Keywords: rex, sparky, parody, dogs, book, dangerous
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0345503708
ISBN-13: 9780345503701
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD PARODY: AN lLLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR--AND BY--DOGS, UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DOGHOOD AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO THE VERY ACTIVITIES THAT HUMAN SOCIETY SAYS ARE WRONG.The Dangerous Book for Dogs asks a simple question: isn’t there more to being a dog than wearing a mini cashmere sweater and riding around in a $400 evening clutch? What about the simple pleasures of life -- feeling the wind in your fur, digging up the grass beneath your paws, smelling another dog’s butt? Isn’t that part of the great joy of being a dog?Written (with help) by dogs and for dogs, The
Author: Dennis Denisoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: century, literature, culture, nineteenth, studies, sexual, parody, cambridge, aestheticism
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-03-16
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521024897
ISBN-13: 9780521024891
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the concept of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert’s drama, and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood’s prose to George Du Maurier’s cartoons and Max Beerbohm’s caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the interactions of late nineteenth and twentieth century parody and aestheticism with the texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde.
