The Oxford Book of Parodies [Audiobook] download free by John Gross
- Listen audiobook: The Oxford Book of Parodies
- Author: John Gross
- Release date: 2010/4/14
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199548828
- Rating: 8.73 of 10
- Votes: 514
- Review by: Colette Whelan
- Review rating: 8.92 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 4H31M27S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WavPack, MP3, AIFF, FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4 DST, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, TAR.XZ, TAR, CAB, RAR, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M53S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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, are represented in this stunning new anthology, which provides an unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art. The classics of the genre are all here, from Lewis Carroll to Max Beerbohm; but so are scores of lesser known but scarcely less gifted figures, and brilliant contemporaries such as Craig Brown and Wendy Cope. At every stage there are surprises. Chaucer celebrates Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Proust visits Chelsea, Yeats re-writes 'Old King Cole', Harry Potter encounters Mick Jagger, a modernized Sermon on the Mount rubs shoulders with an obituary of Sherlock Holmes. The collection provides a hilarious running commentary on literary history, but it also looks beyond literature in the narrow sense to take in such things as advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare, and a scientific hoax.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Poetry By Individual Poets, Parodies & Spoofs, Anthologies (non-poetry)
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 22.86 USD
- Dimensions: 161x240x34mm
- Weight: 674g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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