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Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.…”
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Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Rewriting/reprising plural intertextualities /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Pastiche, parody, genre and gender -- pt. 2. Rewritings in the Victorian age, rewriting the Victorians -- pt. 3. …”
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Rewriting/reprising plural intertextualities /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Pastiche, parody, genre and gender -- pt. 2. Rewritings in the Victorian age, rewriting the Victorians -- pt. 3. …”
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Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" / by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…Crafted misdirection : Lolita as parody.…”
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Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" / by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…Crafted misdirection : Lolita as parody.…”
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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…"The home of my childhood": incest and imitation in Coopers' Home as found -- "Plowing homeward": cultivation and grafting in Thoreau and the Week -- "The home of the dead": representation and speculation in Hawthorne and The house of seven gables -- "At home in his words": parody and parricide in Melville's Pierre.…”
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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…"The home of my childhood": incest and imitation in Coopers' Home as found -- "Plowing homeward": cultivation and grafting in Thoreau and the Week -- "The home of the dead": representation and speculation in Hawthorne and The house of seven gables -- "At home in his words": parody and parricide in Melville's Pierre.…”
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Disseminal Chaucer rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.…”
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Disseminal Chaucer rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.…”
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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Faustus -- Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is -- Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading -- The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies.…”
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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Faustus -- Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is -- Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading -- The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies.…”
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Reeling with laughter American film comedies : from anarchy to mockumentary / by Tueth, Michael

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Reeling with laughter American film comedies : from anarchy to mockumentary / by Tueth, Michael

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OurSpace resisting the corporate control of culture / by Harold, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the brand politics of consuming publics -- Detours and drifts : situationist international and the art of resistance -- Anti-logos : sabotaging the brand through parody -- Intermezzo : and now a word from our sponsors -- Pranks, rumors, hoaxes : "dressing up" and folding as rhetorical action -- Intermezzo : a sequel -- Pirates and hijackers : creative publics and the politics of "owned culture" -- Inventing publics : kairos and intellectual property law -- Conclusion : from private rights to common goods : OurSpace as a creative commons…”
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OurSpace resisting the corporate control of culture / by Harold, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the brand politics of consuming publics -- Detours and drifts : situationist international and the art of resistance -- Anti-logos : sabotaging the brand through parody -- Intermezzo : and now a word from our sponsors -- Pranks, rumors, hoaxes : "dressing up" and folding as rhetorical action -- Intermezzo : a sequel -- Pirates and hijackers : creative publics and the politics of "owned culture" -- Inventing publics : kairos and intellectual property law -- Conclusion : from private rights to common goods : OurSpace as a creative commons…”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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