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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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"Só para mulheres" (Just for women): Alfonsina Storni's and Clarice Lispector's Transgression of the Women's Page

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Fiction and metafiction in Paulo Scott's Habitante irreal

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Irony, Disruption and Moral Imperfection

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Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s

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