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THE GENIUS OF PARODY
IMITATION AND ORIGINALITY IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE |
| By: |
Robert L. Mack |
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Electronic book text |
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£69.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230286518 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230286511 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
15 February, 2007 |
| Description: |
Recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity. This study places parody firmly (if paradoxically) where it belongs: at the centre of the literary-creative process in the literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. |
| Synopsis: |
The Genius of Parody aims to question the still-pervasive characterization of parody as an invariably 'base' authorial strategy. Traditionally, little attention was paid to parody as a literary mode at work within even the least significant or valued traditions of English poetry, drama and prose fiction. Even less toleration was extended to recognition of parody within the writing of so-called 'original' or truly 'creative' authors. By focusing on a particular dynamic of text-specific dialogue that emerged among authors following the Restoration, this exciting new study redresses the balance, revealing the extent to which parody played a significant and very often determining role in some of the most traditionally canonical authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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UK |
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Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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