The Problematic of Reading Generic Signals in Parodic Discourse

The aim of this study is to analyze the double-function of generic signals in double-voiced discourse of parody which involves by its nature the parodied and the parodying voices simultaneously. The paper claims that generic signals, which are supposed to be working mostly at an unconscious level to create a generic context for the reader in interpreting a text, become double-voiced by the parodist’s manipulation and work at a conscious level. It is common that the parody writer barrows and appropriates generic signals of the genre he parodies to indicate the parodied genre and also his departure from this genre. Parodic intentions become palpable immediately with the „parodic stylization” — to use Bakhtin’s term — of the generic signals, which brings about the Bakhtinian refraction of the authorial voice in parody. Since the parody writer intentionally appropriates the speech of the prodied genre, authorial refractions become clearer in parodic discourse. Through studying such refractions with a particular emphasis on genre parodies and specific examples from Cervantes’ Don Quijote, the present study argues that generic signals in parodic discourse assume the double-function of signaling the parodied genre and the parodying voice simultaneously. In order to show how generic signals assume a highly communicative function in parody, this study focuses on texts where the author parodies not a single writer and a single work, but a whole genre with its conventions. As a genre parody which aims for the governing discourse behind the genre it imitates, Cervantes’ Don Quijote produce significant examples that the double-function of generic signals can be seen explicitly through the authorial refractions in the text

A critical edition of the text of The Dispensary, 1699, by Sir Samuel Garth, 1661-1719

VOLUME ONE: Acknowledgements • Note on the illustrations • A list of Abbreviations Used • Introduction Part One. The Medical Background to the Poem • Introduction Part Two. The Man and the Poem • Notes on the Text of this Edition • The DispensaryVOLUME TWO: Textual Notes • Annotations to The Dispensary • Appendix A. Garth and the Epistles of Phalaris and the Wits versus Blackmore • Appendix B. Notes on Garth's key to The Dispensary and Pope's annotated copies of the poem, together with a representative key to erroneous identifications of characters contained in The Dispensary • Select Bibliography to the Introduction and Appendice

Pope’s double mistress : Oriental philosophy and the Scriblerian dialectic

My dissertation, “Pope’s Double Mistress: Oriental Philosophy and the Scriblerian Dialectic,” addresses the aesthetic form and literary history of an eighteenth-century genre known as Scriblerian satire. The study recovers a hitherto unacknowledged technique of Orientalist imitation crafted by Alexander Pope and featured in the “Double Mistress” episode in The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741). By uncovering Pope’s esoteric Scriblerian design, we gain a clearer understanding of his archive and reception into the literary canon. My study documents the surprising impact of Pope’s Scriblerian Orientalism on British literary history, tracing its influence over a series of controversies surrounding the posthumous suppressions and revelations of his Double Mistress episode.Englis