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Being tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, and even being a deliberate parody don't preclude a work from being an exemplar of the genre it's parodying.
by Cpoll 8y ago
Being tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, and even being a deliberate parody don't preclude a work from being an exemplar of the genre it's parodying.
- freshhawk 8y agoThat is perfectly reasonable, but I think it is also perfectly reasonable to say "parody of X" is the genre most related to but still distinct from genre "X". In a lot of contexts that is a useful taxonomy to use, because it ends up being more clear.