"What is a Parody?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- How do you define parody? What are some examples of parodies? What is the difference between a parody and a satire or a parody and a pastiche?
In this short lesson, Professor Ehren Pflugfelder answers these questions through brief examples from novels, songs, and other cultural objects. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify and analyze parodies within and beyond their literature classes.
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Timestamps
0:00 Parody Definition
0:24 Parody of English Professor
1:13 Parody Example
1:41 Parody vs Pastiche
2:31 Parody of English Professor 2
2:50 Parody vs Satire
4:06 Parody and Copyright
5:19 Parody Conclusion
If you enjoyed this video, give us a like, drop us a question about parodies, or share your favorite example of a parody in a novel, short story, or other cultural object. Thanks for watching, everybody!
Ehren! It's so fun to discover a grad school friend has made exactly the video one seeks! Thank you for this resource--it will be very helpful for my students.
Thanks so much, Dr. Setka! We'll be sure to pass along your message to Ehren!
I'd love to know whether Professor Plugfelder is drawing on life experience in his parody of the English professor, or whether he did any theater training to prepare himself for the role?
Interesting question, @tetzlaffjo ! We reached out to Prof. Pflugfelder, and he gave a rather cagey answer. The short version is that while he has no formal training in theater, he prepared for this role by immersing himself in Stanislavski's "method acting" rehearsal techniques during recent faculty meetings. This may, in part, explain his sudden, bizarre interest in reclassifying the School of Writing, Literature and Film as "The Tortured Poets Department"--a strange moniker that seems entirely of his own invention.
Album 💿 title equals 🟰 book 📕 📖 📚 title. Numbers plus Song title equals 🟰 Chapters Lyrics equals Details. In my opinion the number is a chapter which means a main division of a book, typically with a number or title while the song title is a song title more of chapter 1 leaning towards book 📕 📖 📚. For me as a listener studio album 💿 and book 📖 📕 are the same. Because both books and studio albums have a song title and a number right next to it which is book 📕 📖 📚 and chapter.
Lol the proferssor one was enough 😂
Ha! We hope that means you liked it…?
Is it same as pastiche please respond to me as soon as possible 🙏🏻🙏🏻
As the lesson suggests, pastiche and parody do differ from one another in terms of their attitude towards the subject they are copying. Pastiche is paying homage (often poorly) to the thing being copied, whereas parody is usually mocking that subject.
We did regard John Dryden's verse, "Mac Flecknoe" as a satire back in our history of literature class; but it directly and purposefully targets Thomas Shadwell and mocks him. How come it is a satire and not a parody?
Dang, that is a deep cut, Rezvan! The two genres definitely blend together in the 18th century's mock epics, but one easy way to answer your question might be to look at the form in which Dryden writes his poem and compare it with the common forms of Shadwell's poetry. Is Shadwell writing epics in heroic couplets? Or is Dryden parodying an elevated genre by placing Shadwell within it?