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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.Abstract:
Examines the historical development of parody in order to examine its place, purpose and practice in the postmodern world of contemporary artforms.read more
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“Culturally Homeless”: Queer Parody and Negative Affect as Resistance to Normatives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that parodic performances of negative affect can expose how shame regulates the gender/sexuality performances of straight people as well as queers, and they argue that the use of parodically performing shame and shaming rituals in resisting normative regulation is important as a counter measure to increasing homonormative inclusion of (white, middle class) gays and lesbians into straight or neoliberal society.
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En busca de la permanencia: el agua en Caballeros de fortuna
TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between the symbolic and real reality in Caballeros de fortuna (1994), a novela by Luis Landero, and found that the symbolic dimension of the subject is always incomplete, on a neverending quest for wholeness.
Estrellas de mar: Maria Irene Fornes y la reescritura femenina del melodrama Starfish: Maria Irene Fornes and the Feminist Rewriting of Melodrama
TL;DR: Fornes has always shown an interest in rewriting and parodying the conventions of romance melodrama, mostly the clash of forces found in the love triangle and the role of the heroine as the object of masculine desire and the moral adhesive of the family as discussed by the authors.
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Between the Normative and the Performative: Sex, Parody, and Other (In)tractable Issues in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale
TL;DR: This article explored how Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales discuss human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that helps the author to explore the extant tension between the human and the ideal.