Parody - Ancient, Modern and Post-Modern

Klappentext In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification of modern! late-modern! and post-modern theories of the subject. The author's Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979) was influential in broadening awareness of parody as a 'double-coded' device which could be used for more than mere ridicule. In the present study she both expands and revises the introductory section of her 1979 text and adds substantial new sections on modern and post-modern theories and uses of parody and pastiche which also discuss the work of theorists and writers including the Russian formalists! Mikhail Bakhtin! Hans Robert Jauss! Wolfgang Iser! Julia Kristeva! Roland Barthes! Michel Foucault! Jacques Derrida! Ihab Hassan! Jean Baudrillard! Fredric Jameson! A. S. Byatt! Martin Amis! Charles Jencks! Umberto Eco! David Lodge! Malcolm Bradbury and others. Zusammenfassung In this definitive study of parody Margaret Rose presents a history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times. The book expands and revises her earlier Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979)! providing a full and detailed account of the subject which will become a standard work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Defining Parody from the Ancients Onwards: 1. Ways of defining parody; 2. Distinguishing parody from related forms; Part II. Modern Parody: 3. Modern and late-modern theories and uses of parody; Part III. Post-Modern Parody: 4. Contemporary late-modern and post-modern theories and uses of parody; Part IV. Conclusions: 5. General conclusion; 6. From the ancient to the modern and the post-modern: a summary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret A. Rose
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1993
• EAN: 9780521429245
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42924-5
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies