Parody
Here are entered works on the literary form of humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature. Collections of parodies in several languages or of several literatures, in the English language, or of English and American literature are entered under Parodies. Collections in other languages or in other literatures are entered under Parodies qualified by language or nationality, e.g. Parodies, French.
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Comic literature
- Literature, Comic
- Travesty
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Christoph Martin Wieland as the Originator of Modern Travesty in German Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1970), by Charlotte M. Craig (HTML at Project MUSE)- Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Martha Bayless (page images at HathiTrust)
- Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités Légendaires (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Michele Hannoosh (PDF at Ohio State)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Commedia dell'arte -- Early works to 1800- Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
- Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
- Apuntes para la Historia de la Caricatura (in Spanish; 1877), by Jacinto Octavio Picón (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
- Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
- A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
- Daumier: Der Meister der Karikatur (in German; Munich: Delphin Verlag, c1920), by Arthur Rümann, illust. by Honoré Daumier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Social Pictorial Satire: Reminiscences and Appreciations of English Illustrators of the Past Generation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by George Du Maurier (multiple formats)
- Judy: or, The London Serio-Comic Journal (partial serial archives)
- Apuntes para la Historia de la Caricatura (in Spanish; 1877), by Jacinto Octavio Picón (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
- The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature (London: Grant Richards, 1904), by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Fictions of Satire (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, by John Dryden (Gutenberg text)
- Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), by Sean D. Moore (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1958), by Arthur Ellicott Case (page images at HathiTrust)
- Swift (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
- Swift (New York: Harper and Bros., 1882), by Leslie Stephen
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary Quotation and Allusion in Lucian (New York: King's Crown Press, 1941), by Fred W. Householder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Processed World (full serial archives)
- The Realist, ed. by Paul Krassner (full serial archives)
- Oz (satirical, countercultural Australian magazine published in the 1960s) (partial serial archives)
- La Caricature (in French; 1830-1843) (partial serial archives)
- Correspondence on the Subject of Blackwood's Magazine (ca. 1818), by John Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, and Macvey Napier (HTML with commentary at vt.edu)
- Six Ecclesiastical Satires, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at metseditions.org)
- Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
- A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Helene P. Foley (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- A Book of Burlesques (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1920), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Man in the Moon, &c. &c. &c. (anonymous, but variously attributed to Hone, Cruikshank, and Canning; 22nd edition; London: W. Hone, 1820), contrib. by William Hone, George Cruikshank, and George Canning
- The Barbarous Britishers: A Tip-Top Novel (London: J. Lane, 1896), by H. D. Traill, illust. by Aubrey Beardsley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1812), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Jon Duan ("by the authors of The Coming K__ and the Siliad"; London: Weldon and Co., 1874), by Samuel Orchart Beeton, Philander Smiff, and Evelyn Douglas Jerrold (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Le Petit Journal des Refusées (originally published 1896; this edition 2009), ed. by Johanna Drucker, contrib. by Gelett Burgess (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Beware the Cat; and The Funerals of King Edward the Sixth (New London: Connecticut College, 1963), by William Baldwin, ed. by William P. Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Satire Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1905), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot (Augustan reprint #140; texts originally published 1726 and 1727; Los Angeles: W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1970), by Henry Carey, ed. by Samuel L. Macey (Gutenberg text, decorated HTML, and page images)
- Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools, With Short Notes in Greek (in Greek, with English introduction; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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