Part One
Parodies of individual authors by parodists including: Max
Beerbohm, Robert Benchley, Alan Bennett, Irving Berlin, John
Betjeman,Bret Harte, Anthony Hecht, Clive James, H. L. Mencken,
George Orwell, James Thurber, John Updike, Peter Ustinov, Evelyn
Waugh
Parodied authors include: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson,
Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, Longfellow, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson,
Hardy, Wilde, Conan Doyle, Yeats, Woolf, A. A. Milne, Lawrence,
Marianne Moore, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Cole Porter, e.
e. cummings, Hemingway, Auden, Larkin, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ted
Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Heaney, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, J. K.
Rowling
Part Two
From the Wider World [foreign authors]
Nursery Rhymes
Tories and Radicals
The Young Jane Austen
Ripostes
Alice [Lewis Carroll]
James Joyce as Parodist
Composites
Stage and Screen
Artistic Endeavours
The Written Word
Draynfleete
Affairs of State
The Sokal Hoax
Two Tributes
A Mixed Assembly
John Gross was editor of the TLS from 1973-80 and a staff writer
for the New York Times from 1983-9; he was theatre critic for the
Sunday Telegraph from 1989-2005. He is the author of books
including The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969; revised
1991), Shylock: a Legend and its Legacy (1992, winner of the
Heinemann Prize of The Royal Society of Literature), and a memoir,
A Double Thread (2001). For
Oxford he has edited anthologies of Aphorisms, Essays, Comic Verse,
English Prose and After Shakespeare. His most recent anthology is
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (2006, pbk 2008).
`The critic FR Leavis disliked parody on the grounds that it
"demeaned" the writer being held up to ridicule. A moment of two in
the company of John Gross's sparkling new compendium demonstrates
how wrong Leavis was. Gross's book passes the first great
anthologist's test - putting in everything the reader expects to
find, and a whole lot more besides - with flying colours.'
DJ Taylor, The Financial Times
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