Parody In Hong Kong
1.1 Parody in Hong Kong
Definition http://robsonhall.ca/mlj/images/Articles/33v2/reynolds.pdf Parody, a term derived from the Greek word”parodia”, has an ancient heritage.
Later Greek and Roman writers used the term parody to refer to a more widespread practice of quotation, not necessarily humorous, in which both writers and speakers introduce allusions to previous texts.
The “popular perception of parody and the standard dictionary definition” conceives of parody as a “specific work of humorous or mocking intent, which imitates the work of an individual author or artist, genre or style, so as to make it appear ridiculous”
This conception, which has been referred to as a “target” parody, has been frequently cited by courts in Canada and the United States as the definition of parody. Lastly, many definitions of parody do not insist upon criticism at all. Margaret A. Rose defines parody as the comic refunctioning of performed linguistic or artistic material
Tracing the history of parody, Rose notes that the “comic” side of parody has been a characteristic of the form since its earliest introduction in ancient Greece:
The majority of works to which words for parody are attached by the ancients, and which are still known to us in whole or in part, suggest that parody was understood as being humorous in the sense of producing effects characteristic of the comic, and that if aspects of ridicule or mockery were present these were additional to its other functions and were co-existent with the parody’s ambivalent renewal of its target or targets
Linda Hutcheon is another “of a number of theorists who believe that the continuing and unwarranted inclusion of ridicule in its definition has trivialised the form.”Hutcheon defines parody as a “form of imitation…characterized by ironic inversion, not always at the expense of the parodied text”, suggesting that “what is remarkable about modern parody is its range of intent – from the ironic and playful to the scornful and
Definition http://robsonhall.ca/mlj/images/Articles/33v2/reynolds.pdf Parody, a term derived from the Greek word”parodia”, has an ancient heritage.
Later Greek and Roman writers used the term parody to refer to a more widespread practice of quotation, not necessarily humorous, in which both writers and speakers introduce allusions to previous texts.
The “popular perception of parody and the standard dictionary definition” conceives of parody as a “specific work of humorous or mocking intent, which imitates the work of an individual author or artist, genre or style, so as to make it appear ridiculous”
This conception, which has been referred to as a “target” parody, has been frequently cited by courts in Canada and the United States as the definition of parody. Lastly, many definitions of parody do not insist upon criticism at all. Margaret A. Rose defines parody as the comic refunctioning of performed linguistic or artistic material
Tracing the history of parody, Rose notes that the “comic” side of parody has been a characteristic of the form since its earliest introduction in ancient Greece:
The majority of works to which words for parody are attached by the ancients, and which are still known to us in whole or in part, suggest that parody was understood as being humorous in the sense of producing effects characteristic of the comic, and that if aspects of ridicule or mockery were present these were additional to its other functions and were co-existent with the parody’s ambivalent renewal of its target or targets
Linda Hutcheon is another “of a number of theorists who believe that the continuing and unwarranted inclusion of ridicule in its definition has trivialised the form.”Hutcheon defines parody as a “form of imitation…characterized by ironic inversion, not always at the expense of the parodied text”, suggesting that “what is remarkable about modern parody is its range of intent – from the ironic and playful to the scornful and