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A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms

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The authors examines the historical development of parody in order to examine its place, purpose and practice in the post-modern world of contemporary art forms, and examines its place and purpose in satire.
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Examines the historical development of parody in order to examine its place, purpose and practice in the postmodern world of contemporary artforms.

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Cross-Cultural Queer Encounters: Women, Nation and Queer Culture in Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Film

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the representation of female immigration and travel to and from Spain in contemporary Spanish literature and film from the late 1990s to the present, and argue that these cultural productions reveal the socioeconomic and racial hierarchies still at play in Spain's celebrated "rainbow society".
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Attitudes Towards the Past

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on attitudes and approaches to the past, particularly the interplay between parody and lingering nostalgia, and the opening of a particular critical-parodic stance towards the present, as well as past.
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'Permanent Parabasis': Beckettian Irony in the Work of Paul Auster, John Banville and J.M. Coetzee

TL;DR: The authors consider the influence of the writing of Samuel Beckett on that of Paul Auster, John Banville and J.M. Coetzee through the lens of Romantic irony, as formulated by Friedrich Schlegel and Paul de Man.
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Isaiah 40.3 and the Synoptic Gospels’ Parody of the Roman Road System

TL;DR: The authors argued that the Synoptic Gospels' citations of Isa 40.3 presage the triumph of God, while simultaneously parodying Roman imperial ideology, and argued that Rome's pretentions were by implication counterfeit.