A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it, but a parody can also be about a real-life person, event or movement. The literary scholar Simon Dentith defines parody as any cultural practice that provides a relatively polemical, allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice, while the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon holds that parody is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text. Parody may be found across art and culture, including literature, music, theater, television, film, animation and gaming.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 1 Defining TraitA creative work that imitates, comments on, or mocks its subject through satirical or ironic imitation 1 Defining Trait Parody
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How is parody different from satire, travesty and pastiche?
Parody imitates a specific work or genre, usually playfully, while satire targets real-world vices.
The four are related but not the same. A satire is meant to make fun of the real world, whereas a parody is a derivative of a specific work or of a general genre. Satire is also provocative and critical, pointing to a specific vice in order to mock a person or group into correction, while parody is more focused on playful humor and does not always attack its target. A travesty imitates and transforms a work but focuses more on satirizing it, so the playfulness of parody is lost. A pastiche imitates a work as a parody does, but it is neither transformative of the original nor humorous.
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In ancient Greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics.
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For example, Don Quixote, which mocks the traditional knight errant tales, is much better known than the novel that inspired it.
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A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
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A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
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is a type of parody
Wikipedia: Fairy tale parody
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parodies traditional fairy tales
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It is a form of parody in which a well-known opera or piece of classical theatre or ballet is adapted into a broad comic play, usually a musical play, usually risqué in style, mocking the theatrical and musical conventions and styles of the original work, and often quoting or pastiching text or music from the original work.
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Genre: Lyric poetry, epic poetry, free verse, prose poetry, parody, satire, utopian fiction
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