This article provides the readers with vivid examples and detailed analysis of how "decadent"aesthetics find expressions in fiction written by Eileen Chang and Qian Zhongshu in occupied Shanghai during the War of Resi...
American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open endings.The ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-Buried Child is intriguing.Some critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American f...
Parody is the expression of postmodernism,which makes use of the similarity between texts to ridicule and parody the original classic texts.The creation method of parody makes the works have a brand-new character imag...
Focusing on parody,this paper tries to explore“Joycing”parody and mainly investigates its usage in Ulysses’s seventeenth chapter,‘Ithaca’.Linda Hutcheon indicates that parody is one of the techniques for writers...
The purpose of this paper is to explore three main rhetorical devices employed by the The Sutra of Hui Neng in terms of metaphor,pun,and parody.The Sutra of Hui Neng records the zen thoughts rather than the language.I...
John Barth uses a lot of parody in Chimera,such as characters,story background,etc.From the analysis of character parody,we can feel the timeliness and reality of that period.
John Barth uses a lot of parody in Chimera,such as plots,characters,etc.This article will compare the plot between Chimera and the originals,to interpret the imitation and mockery of parody.
Parody is a rhetoric device used widely nowadays in English advertisement, including imitation of words and sentences. This paper analyzes in detail the types, characteristics and functions of parody applied in advert...
Among the many postmodern revisions of The Tempest, Warner's Indigo remains second to none. It rewrites and parodies The Tempest with its postmodern subversion and construction, aiming to bombard European logocentric ...