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A collection of short poems with an underlying tone of humor and parody.

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...A parody that mirrors the time-line of JK Rowling's Book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter Book 2). Though this book is a parody of book 2, it is the first book of this series....

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A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

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... amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travelers' tales literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror — but the superficial world of Bath proves ha...

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...Short stories by a colleague of Jerome K. Jerome, and friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Barr probably wrote the first parody of Sherlock Holmes (included in this collection). He co-edited The Idler with Jerome. [written by Czechchris ]...

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...volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Parody on The Golden Days of good Queen Bess by Sir John Carr. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009....

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...This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer) You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale... indicates any lack of Loyalty to ...

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...volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of The Jabberwocky of Authors by Harry Persons Taber. This parody of Carroll's Jabberwocky consists almost entirely of authors' names. See how many you can spot! This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 4th, 2010....

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...And now for something completely different—a humorous science fiction parody of epic fantasy adventure stories—an anti-fantasy book that pokes some good-natured fun at the serious tone and dependence on magic common to many epic fantasy adventure genre novels. There are no dragons here, but the...

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...Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's great...

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...sk yourself – “What is art?”. This book does not take itself seriously and laughs at its own reflection (Do not attempt at home), being put satire or parody. Give this book to your emo friend, because you forgot to buy him a gift. Perhaps even give it to your grandma....

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...venile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love, which neatly undercuts the title. Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as m...

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...8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away it's genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; Q. A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry; The Man in ...

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... and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York in 1831, one of the numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of Science. Like The Pickwick Papers, The Mudfog Papers cl...

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...s, functions and ... mathematicians. The mentioned creation seems a kind of a parody (an often used specie in postmodernism) of the mathematical lang... ... satire. It reaches even the par(ad)oxysm, because it is met in every “ fable, parody, epigram, quatrain, distich (the subtitle of the book written ... ...ents), is abundantly practiced by the paradoxism’s founder: the poetry (as a parody and an imitation) appears converted into theatre (Love’s affai... ...ned not only through paradoxes, but also through irony (see above), imitation, parody and other different means added to the “masks” that the gifted ... ...rmanent obsession; from it he takes his creative resources. The irony and the parody have at him an intrisec, constructionist and subtly shaping aim... ...ardes from the 20 th century, because it can not be put the problem of their parody/ imitation, as themselves represented at their time as many tak... ...hylosed patterns ( the retort of retorts would be a nonsense, as well as their parody, because the parody of parody is impossible!); • in some poin...

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... superposition of the fiction with the absurd realizes the burlesque, the parody of a relation of equivalence interpreted in one of opposition amaze... ... pathetic fictions, since the more authentic postmodernist dimension is a parody. The postmodernist ideology is largely reflected in the expressi... ... as such in the series of proceedings of the evasion - the absurd, utopia, parody, imitation, allusion. The funambulistic spectacle of paradoxism (wr... ... taboos are abolished, that of the love of beauty being one of those. The parody of clichés is constructive of this scriptural mode, as is also the ... ...radoxism. Through this negative notion we name specific deformations: the parodying of the space of the action, the surrealist presentation of the p... ...sory dimensions, the irony against the technical literary automatism, the parodying of the clichés compose the antinorm as a limit to the discredited... ...ng toward the farce. The grotesque dissolves the exasperating models, the parody discredits, the iconoclasm challenges the conventionalisms. If the ... ...xist manner. A first section is entitled Rabid poems, where we can read a parody (Poetry is dead, long live the poets!) with an unexpected romantic ... ...say-novel Political novel, philosophical novel, sociological novel The parodying of some ideas/theses/ political, philosophical methods The trac...

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...ounts that the judge saw the case in relentlessly physical terms, seeing the parody as a “bulldozer” and Gone With the Wind as a walled country estate... ...ay copyright gave to others to comment upon, critique, embel- lish upon, and parody the cultural icon she had conjured up. A NATURAL RIGHT? To some pe... ...s us pause to think that Margaret Mitchell or her heirs could forbid someone parodying her work. Are there no free- speech limitations? When other for... ...n that was necessary to further the goals of the system. Fair use allows for parody, commentary, and criticism, and also for “decompilation” of comput... ...mechanically applied. Look at factor 3, for example. Someone who is making a parody frequently needs to take large chunks of the parodied work. That i... ...tly needs to take large chunks of the parodied work. That is the nature of a parody, after all. They might then sell the parody, thus also getting int... ... ruined any chance the book had of selling well. Come to think of it, even a parody might have a negative effect on the “potential market” for the par... ...rdly explains some of the types of fair use we care most about—the rights to parody, to criticize, to reverse engineer.) Or perhaps fair use allows th... ... from translating Mein Kampf in or- der to warn of the dangers of fascism or parodying some piece of art to sub- versive effect. Each of these ideas a...

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...all taboos are abolished, that of the love of beauty being one of those. The parody of clichés is constructive of this scriptural mode, as is also t...