The Genius of Parody
Subtitle: Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230008564
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; 18th Century English Literature; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; 18th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History and criticism; Parody in literature
Description: "The Genius of Parody aims to question the still-pervasive characterization of parody as an invariably 'base' authorial strategy. Traditionally, little attention was paid to parody as a literary mode at work within even the least significant or valued traditions of English poetry, drama and prose fiction. Even less toleration was extended to recognition of parody within the writing of so-called 'original' or truly 'creative' authors. By focusing on a particular dynamic of text-specific dialogue that emerged among authors following the Restoration, this new study redresses the balance, revealing the extent to which parody played a significant and very often determining role in some of the most traditionally canonical authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."--Jacket.