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I can still remember the exact moment someone passed me this link a decade ago and how doubled-over with laughter I was while reading it. Perhaps there's a ter
by ezekiel68 3y ago
I can still remember the exact moment someone passed me this link a decade ago and how doubled-over with laughter I was while reading it. Perhaps there's a term or a well known genre (besides "irony") for critiquing a writer by mimicking his style. But it was new to me and it still reads freshly to me today.
I don't worry too much about renowned author Dan Brown's feelings. He can cry all the way to the bank.
- sundvor 3y agoI just read it for the first time, without any spoilers. It took me a second, then I had to laugh loud out at the legendary piss-take at display. Wonderful.
- jameshart 3y ago> Perhaps there's a term or a well known genre (besides "irony") for critiquing a writer by mimicking his style Parody. In fact, this is the strict definition of parody - the kind that's actually protected in copyright law. Other things that get called Parody, like Weird Al Yankovic songs, aren't strictly parodic because they are using a creator's work to critique something else. Just changing the words to a thing or reusing the characters or plotlines to make it about something else isn't 'parodic' unless the something else you're making it about has some critical purpose in relation to the original work. Using someone's own style to critique them is, precisely, legally, parody.
- pests 3y agoI don't agree with you on your definitions of parody.