An unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art, The Oxford Book of Parodies includes parodies from Chaucer to the present day, ranging from imitations and spoofs to lampoons and pastiches, comical, scornful, witty, and subtle. It also takes in advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare and a scientific hoax.
An unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art, The Oxford Book of Parodies includes parodies from Chaucer to the present day, ranging from imitations and spoofs to lampoons and pastiches, comical, scornful, witty, and subtle. It also takes in advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare and a scientific hoax.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Gross was editor of the TLS from 1973-80 and a staff writer for the New York Times from 1983-9; he was theatre critic for the Sunday Telegraph from 1989-2005. He is the author of books including The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969; revised 1991), Shylock: a Legend and its Legacy (1992, winner of the Heinemann Prize of The Royal Society of Literature), and a memoir, A Double Thread (2001). For Oxford he has edited anthologies of Aphorisms, Essays, Comic Verse, English Prose and After Shakespeare. His most recent anthology is The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (2006, pbk 2008).
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* Part One * Parodies of individual authors by parodists including: Max Beerbohm Robert Benchley Alan Bennett Irving Berlin John Betjeman Bret Harte Anthony Hecht Clive James H. L. Mencken George Orwell James Thurber John Updike Peter Ustinov Evelyn Waugh * Parodied authors include: Chaucer Shakespeare Milton Johnson Wordsworth Emerson Poe Longfellow Tennyson Emily Dickinson Hardy Wilde Conan Doyle Yeats Woolf A. A. Milne Lawrence Marianne Moore Raymond Chandler Agatha Christie Cole Porter e. e. cummings Hemingway Auden Larkin Kerouac Ginsberg Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath Heaney Ian McEwan Martin Amis J. K. Rowling * Part Two * From the Wider World [foreign authors] * Nursery Rhymes * Tories and Radicals * The Young Jane Austen * Ripostes * Alice [Lewis Carroll] * James Joyce as Parodist * Composites * Stage and Screen * Artistic Endeavours * The Written Word * Draynfleete * Affairs of State * The Sokal Hoax * Two Tributes * A Mixed Assembly
* Part One * Parodies of individual authors by parodists including: Max Beerbohm Robert Benchley Alan Bennett Irving Berlin John Betjeman Bret Harte Anthony Hecht Clive James H. L. Mencken George Orwell James Thurber John Updike Peter Ustinov Evelyn Waugh * Parodied authors include: Chaucer Shakespeare Milton Johnson Wordsworth Emerson Poe Longfellow Tennyson Emily Dickinson Hardy Wilde Conan Doyle Yeats Woolf A. A. Milne Lawrence Marianne Moore Raymond Chandler Agatha Christie Cole Porter e. e. cummings Hemingway Auden Larkin Kerouac Ginsberg Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath Heaney Ian McEwan Martin Amis J. K. Rowling * Part Two * From the Wider World [foreign authors] * Nursery Rhymes * Tories and Radicals * The Young Jane Austen * Ripostes * Alice [Lewis Carroll] * James Joyce as Parodist * Composites * Stage and Screen * Artistic Endeavours * The Written Word * Draynfleete * Affairs of State * The Sokal Hoax * Two Tributes * A Mixed Assembly
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