The Genius of Parody: Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century English Literature

by RobertL.Mack (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $61.59

  Recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity. This study places parody firmly (if paradoxically) where it belongs: at the centre of the literary-creative process in the literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries.