Sentence examples for serious parody from inspiring English sources
A handful of its uncanny images have lingered with Lethem and Rusnak, who have transplanted Gerber and Skrenes's best riffs into what Lethem calls a "serious parody" of old superhero comics — faithfully preserving the elements of the form but drastically mutating their tone.
Joseph Frank, who suggested that the whole work is a "serious parody", recalled that Poor Folk burlesques the "high-society adventure novel, the Gogolian humorous local color-tale" and "the debunking physiological sketch".
This point of view is "programmatic" in the sense that it disposes the reader to accept the revolutionary novelty of Eliot's polyglot quotations and serious parodies of other poets' styles in The Waste Land.
He praised the pilot and Thomas' writing, saying it had "comedy, deathly serious drama, parody and danger, ingredients not typically mixed together", and said that "if future episodes are half as good, this still will be one of TV's bright spots".
A Serious Mockery: In this brief piece from The Literary Review, D. J. Taylor defends the gravitas of parody.
The band's last major-label album, "Machina/The Machines of God," a very serious self-parody concept album that ranks among the band's most mature and accessible work, may have received very little radio play, but it did provide ample evidence that the Smashing Pumpkins could have continued making exceptional and important rock albums if it felt enough people were still listening.
But he's garnered media attention ― and become a go-to expert source on the evils of social media verse ― for something other than his serious work: parodying Instagram poets.
Playful because Godard can never resist teasing parody; serious because he was making an earnest statement about deconstructing film forms.
That year, he tricked a scholarly journal, Social Text, into publishing as a serious article a parody studded with jargon and gibberish and titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity".
A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.
He had a gift for amusing parody of serious poetry, by which he mocked other philosophers and praised the Cynic way of living.
