Burlesque is an artistic form of mockery that imitates literary genres or authors, encompassing mock-heroic (elevating a low subject), travesty (reducing a high subject), and parody (imitating specific works or authors).
Burlesque is a form of mockery found across various arts, involving the imitation of literary genres or authors. It can manifest as mock-heroic (high burlesque, treating a low subject with elevated style) or travesty (low burlesque, treating a high subject with a low style), and includes parody, which specifically mocks particular works or writers.
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| Back | a kind of mockery found in all arts, and in life too. imitation of literary species of specific work or author. it consists of mock-heroic, travesty, and parody. high burlesque (otherwise mock heroic) and low burlesque (otherwise travesty or burlesque Pyramus and Thisbe's episode in a Midsummer night's dream; a high theme or subject is travestied by a low style Pope's Rape of the Lock; treating a low theme in a high style parody; the mockery of specific works or authors |
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