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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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'The performative surprise': parody, documentary and critique
TL;DR: In this article, Du Gay argues that certain circumstances enable parody to destabilize hegemonic, taken-for-granted institutions and explores these ideas through a reading of the Yes Men documentary (Tartan Video 2005).
Creative, Critical, and True: Training Students to Improvise Responsibly with Biblical Text: A Pragmatist, Spirit-led Model
TL;DR: O'Keeffe as discussed by the authors argues that Bible education is best understood as training students to improvise responsibly with Scripture, which helps them develop the capacity to perceive and to act with greater freedom, discernment, and commitment.
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Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674
TL;DR: Munro as mentioned in this paper explores the use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674, focusing on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analyzing the uses to which writers put literary style in order to re-embody and reshape the past.
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Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights: The Onion News Network's Ironic Iconicity
TL;DR: The Onion News Network (ONN) as mentioned in this paper is a comic news organization that produces online sketch videos that draw attention toward communicative dynamics, creating spaces for alternative civic understandings through a televisual technique that imitates but also reconfigures the structure, delivery or content of mainstream news broadcasts like CNN and Fox News.
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Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil
TL;DR: Kronenberg as discussed by the authors showed that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on farming but belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality.