Thesis advisor: Elizabeth Rhodes / Esta tesis analiza la función de la parodia en Don Quijote de La Mancha (1605, 1615). A partir de la cual se explora la manera en que tres adaptaciones cinematográficas de la novela de Cervantes reutilizan la estructura paródica de Don Quijote. Estas adaptaciones son Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo de Roberto Gavaldón (México, 1973), Don Quijote de Orson Welles de Jess Franco (España, 1992) y Don Quijote de La Mancha de Rafael Gil (España, 1948). La novela Don Quijote de Cervantes ofrece una estructura de la parodia que los directores de estas tres películas emplean para criticar discursos originalmente parodiados por Cervantes en su novela--la condenación de la literatura de caballerías. Esta tesis explora las nuevas funciones de la parodia quijotesca analizando cómo se representan y transforman en las adaptaciones cinematográficas. El marco teórico tiene en cuenta recientes contribuciones a la teoría de la parodia, que interpreta esta figura más allá de los estudios de la parodia tradicional vinculados a la representación cómica. Puede ser homenaje o crítica seria de los contextos culturales y políticos del momento en el que el nuevo texto, la adaptación, se produce. Igualmente, recientes estudios teóricos sobre adaptaciones cinematográficas desplazan el privilegio tradicionalmente concedido al texto literario. Estas tres adaptaciones cinematográficas de la novela Don Quijote de La Mancha utilizan la parodia original para crear parodias posmodernas de acuerdo a sus propios contextos históricos y artísticos. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

American film parody can be characterized as a distorted, comical and yet affectionate imitation of a given genre or specific work. Film noir as a genre with its distinct visual styles has been an easy target for such "creative criticism." Mel Brooks, famous for his series of successful parody films, has exhorted that the situation alone must be absurd while the actors must be serious, not funny to make a comedy funnier. He also said that funny is in the writing and not in the performance itself. Film noir through its unconventional visual styles and convoluted story lines engenders feelings of anxiety and paranoia in the audience, providing rich fodder for parody. The animated theatrical series Looney Tunes with its trademark slapstick style is well suited for making serious situations look absurd, affording "creative criticism". In this thesis I first analyze canonical examples to distill the distinct visual characteristics of these two different genres. I then employ the use of parody to bring together a few salient visual elements from each of these genres, thus enabling computer-generated visual parody. Finally, still image examples of such parody are produced by systematically combining visual elements from the two distinct genres, film noir for its expressionistic lighting and elliptical compositional elements, and Looney Tunes for its mischievous mise-en-scene and ingenuous characters.

This dissertation develops a synoptic approach to the systematic identification and comparison of the distribution of material from the model in the Kyrie and in the Credo of six parody masses of Palestrina, Lassus and de Monte, published between 1570 and 1600. These masses are grouped in pairs and each pair is based on a different model. Knowing that the compositional approaches to parody vary from one composer to one another, the objectives of this research are as follows: (1) comparison of the parodic approach of two composers in masses based on the same model; (2) comparison of pairs of masses, considering that Palestrina and Lassus treat two of the three models; (3) comparison of the three masses of Lassus written on three different models. / The synoptic approach to analysis is very interesting, because after the simultaneous identification of the motives in the model and in the mass movements (Kyrie and Credo), the entire complex of selected motives and their use in the construction of the modules become very easily detectable. The results of this research show that: (1) the model does not dictate the treatment, because the same model is treated differently by two composers; for instance, two masses of Palestrina based on different models are more alike, than those of Palestrina and Lassus based on the same model; (2) the model seems to be more attractive to the composer when it is one of his own compositions; for example, Palestrina borrows more material from his madrigal Io son ferito to build his Missa Petra Sancta, than Lassus does it in his Missa super Io son ferito ahi lasso based on the same model; (3) the style of the model does not determine the style of the mass; motifs from a non-imitative model can be treated in imitation in the mass, and (4) the sections of the Kyrie are more suited to formal development (generated by the repetitions of modules), than those of the Credo.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitetet i Lund, 1985. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-519) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitetet i Lund, 1985. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-519) and index.

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / "Stellingen": [3] p. laid in.

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 63 p. : ill., music. Includes bibliographical references.

During and after the First World War, English-language poets employed various ironic techniques to address war's dark absurdities. These methods, I argue, have various degrees of efficacy, depending upon the ethics of the poetry's approach to its reading audience. I judge these ethical discourses according to a poem's willingness to include its readers in the process of poetic construction, through a shared ironic connection. My central ethical test is Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative and Jurgen Habermas's conception of discourse ethics. I argue that without a sense of care and duty toward the reading other (figured in open-ended ironies over dogmatic rhetorics), there can be no social responsibility or reformation, thus testing modernist assumptions about the political usefulness of poetry. I begin with the trench poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, whose sarcastic and satirical ironies are constructed upon a problematic consequentialist ethos. Despite our sympathy for the poets' tragic positions as soldiers, their poems' rhetoric is ultimately coercive rather than politically progressive. It negates the social good it intends by nearly mimicking the unilateral rhetoric that gave rise to the war. The next chapter concerns Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, fundamental modernist poems defining the postwar Anglo-American era. In contrast to the trench poets, I argue these two poems at their best manage to create an irony of free play, inviting the audience's participation in meaning-making through the irony of self-parody. Traditional ethical critiques of these poets' troubling politics, I argue, do not negate the discourse ethics present in these texts. The final three chapters follow the wartime and postwar ironies of the American poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. Williams, a medical doctor, makes use of the ironic grotesque in his poems to offer the voice of poetry to the disenfranchised, including individuals with disabilities. Moore, a modernist and early feminist, pairs her poems to decenter poetic authority, depicting possible ethical poetic conversations. Finally, Stevens's democratic, pragmatic ethics appears within poetry that continually invites its readers to fill in gaps of meaning about the war and beyond.

This article examines humorous portrayals of divinities in kibyoshi, a genre of satirical illustrated fiction that became popular in Edo in the late eighteenth century. Comical and irreverent appropriations of religious icons including kami, buddhas, and bodhisattvas constituted a common technique employed by kibyoshi artists to produce parodic effects. One of the most widely read genres in the latter part of the Tokugawa period, kibyoshi served as an important avenue through which people interacted with or "consumed" religious images in the early modern period. Although it is problematic to presume a direct historical link between kibyoshi and contemporary visual media such as manga and anime, the genre of kibyoshi represents a significant precedent in which religious icons served as key elements in popular entertainment. The article aims to historicize the relationship between religion and visual entertainment, which is a growing area of research in the study of religion in contemporary Japan.

The work of nineteenth-century American poet Phoebe Cary presents a complex puzzle of exigence and purpose that combines social structure, political climate, and personal history. Known for her somber and spiritual sentimental poetry, Cary shocked readers and reviewers alike when she published her collection Poems and Parodies in 1854, which contained a series of scathing and hilarious parodies based on popular sentimental poetry. In my thesis, I work to untangle the various contextual elements surrounding Cary’s writing in order to gain a better understanding of the dual nature of the poet and her work. Through an examination of nineteenth-century American culture, sentimentalism, Cary’s career, and a close reading of selected parodies, I argue that by intentionally undermining patriarchal, sentimental conventions, Cary both reinstates agency and plurality to women through her female speakers and asserts her own agency as an autonomous artist.