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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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Reading the Ungraspable Double-Codedness of: The Simpsons

TL;DR: The authors examines the distinctiveness of The Simpsons and explores how the animated series uses textual strategies that are interesting to and challenging for both (postmodern) critical theory and processes of interpretation, including existing critical writing on the program.
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The Penelopiad and Weight: Contemporary Parodic and Burlesque Transformations of Classical Myths

Hilde Staels
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The Penelopiad and weight novellas by Atwood and Winterson as mentioned in this paper were the first to use metafictional parodia to transform classical myths by means of satire and travesty.
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A Proposed Typology of Sampled Material within Electronic Dance Music

TL;DR: The typology offers a system of classification that takes into account the sonic, musical and referential properties of sampled elements, while also considering the technical realisation of material and the compositional intentions of the producer/DJ.
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Pynchon, postmodernism and quantification: an empirical content analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow:

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical content analysis of the novel confirms this ambiguous attitude with respect to patterning in the novel, and thus constitutes a first and modest step towards the quantification of postmodernism.
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Prosumption, Transmediation, and Resistance: Terrorism and Man-Hunting in Southeast Asia

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