Swift S Parody
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Swift's Parody
Author: Robert Phiddian
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1995-11-09
An exploration of parody in Swift's early prose, and in textual and cultural developments in Swift's Britain.
Parody
Parody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. Parody is revealed as an über-technique, a principal source of innovation and invention in the arts. The technique is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions and the formation of unexpected and sometimes startling and revolutionary new configurations. Parodic art fashions a galaxy of contrasts, and from these stem an illusionistic sense of multiplicity and an array of divergent meanings and interpretive paths. This book, an extreme departure from existing analyses of parody, is nonetheless highly accessible and will be of major interest not only to scholars but to general readers and to professional writers as well. Parody: The Art That Plays with Art is particularly suited for readers interested in modernism, postmodernism, meta-art, criticism, satire, and irony.
Modernist Parody
This volume argues that parody is central to modernism and shows that as a literary technique, parody was a means for modernists to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, and define themselves as post-Victorians.