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  2. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  3. Mock-heroic - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post-Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain.The earliest example of the form is the Batrachomyomachia ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great.

  4. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Austen's juvenile writings are parodies and burlesques of popular 18th-century genres, such as the sentimental novel. She humorously demonstrates that the reversals of social convention common in sentimental novels, such as contempt for parental guidance, are ridiculously impractical; her characters "are dead to all common sense". [1]

  5. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]

  6. Menippean satire - Wikipedia

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    Bakhtin identifies a number of basic characteristics that distinguish Menippean satire from comparable genres in antiquity: [15] There is a significantly heightened comic element, although there are exceptions (for example in Boethius). There is an extraordinary freedom of plot and philosophical invention. It is not bound by the orthodoxies of ...

  7. Aucassin and Nicolette - Wikipedia

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    Critics have seen the story as a parody of such genres as the epic, the romance, and the saint's life. [1] "Few Old French genres escape parody in this concise literary encyclopedia." [1] For example, the theme of distant love (amor de lonh), common in Provençal poetry, is reversed: the lady dresses up as a troubadour and seeks out her beloved ...

  8. Self-parody - Wikipedia

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    An example from Paul Johnson writing about Ernest Hemingway: Some [of Hemingway's later writing] was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably The Old Man and the Sea, though there was an element of self-parody in that too. [2]

  9. Recurring features in Mad - Wikipedia

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    The same format has also been applied by Jacobs to other areas as poetry, press releases, or speechmaking. Duke Bissell's Tales of Undisputed Interest – written and illustrated by P.C. Vey , these absurdist one-page strips presented a series of non sequiturs and bizarre references in the guise of a linear storyline.