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| #2235689 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2012-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x1.10 x7.70l,.85 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Some Real Gems Among the Diamonds in the Rough|By William Carpenter|This book I fear is both too thick and too thin, Too many pages but too few authors to win. Where is Woody Allen or Espy? Tom Lehrer or others less testy? And have either more notes or none -- Still some parts of this book were quite fun.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpfu||"The critic FR Leavis disliked parody on the grounds that it 'demeaned' the writer being held up to ridicule. A moment of two in the company of John Gross's sparkling new compendium demonstrates how wrong Leavis was. Gross's book passes the first great antholo
Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, appear in this delightful anthology, which has been hailed as "delightful" (WallStreet Journal), "enjoyable" (The New Yorker), and "sparkling" (The Financial Times). The classics of the genre are all here, but so are scores o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Oxford Book of Parodies | John Gross. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
