Download or read book The Genius of Parody written by R. Mack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity. This study places parody firmly (if paradoxically) where it belongs: at the centre of the literary-creative process in the literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries.