Open AccessBook
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Parody of the Shakespearean Fool Tradition in an African Society
TL;DR: The Yoruba playwrights, like others from any part of the world, seem to have been influenced by the Shakespearean fool tradition to a large extent as mentioned in this paper, which is visible in the Yoruba fool genre with special reference to the appearance, the role and language of fool.
Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance
TL;DR: Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance as mentioned in this paper explores the relationship between post-wave pop politics and experimental performance, and explores the role of women in experimental performance.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Metamorphosed Parodical Body in Philip Roth's The Breast
TL;DR: The Breast as mentioned in this paper is the story of a Jewish professor of comparative literature, David Kepesh, who turns into a huge female breast and is fed intravenously and remains immobile in a hammock in a private room at a hospital.
Journal ArticleDOI
Coloring social change: Humor, politics, and social movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study explores the 2016 Macedonian social movement called the Colorful Revolution and examines how on-line humor contributed to the emergence and development of the movement.
Journal ArticleDOI
Towards Defining "Postrealism" in British Literature
TL;DR: There is a kind of contemporary avant-garde art which is said to be neither modernist nor antimodernist, but postmodernist; it continues the modernist critique of traditional mimetic art, and shares the modernism commitment to innovation, but pursues these aims by methods of its own as mentioned in this paper.