The Genius of Parody : Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
ISBN: 9780230286511
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

ROBERT L. MACK is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Thomas Gray: A Life, published in 2000.

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