A parody also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

Quotes

  • It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
  • Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime.
  • Any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice.
    • Simon Dentith, Parody (The New Critical Idiom). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18221-2. (2000) p.9
  • Parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.
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