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"Parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text."
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Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/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. Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of
"Parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text."
"Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime."
"Any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice."