An extremely talented parodist of the dead socialist realism style, he seems to have brought its spirit back to life with his word play. |
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At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier. |
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Recommended: To be a successful musical parodist, one has to be a pretty good musician. |
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Believing that all sound is potential music, he was somewhat of an iconoclast and occasionally a parodist. |
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But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve. |
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Tarantino is too unfocused to be a parodist, rather, Kill Bill conveys contempt for its characters, certainly for humanity and even the action genres that supposedly enamor the director. |
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The parodist must both imitate and create incongruity in relation to the pretext, and parody has, contrary to pastiche, traditionally had a comic dimension. |
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As a first step, I will analyse the Discworld in its most parodist roots, a feature that was soon to be replaced by more elaborate satire. |
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Beyond this, however, what comes over more powerfully is Mahon's ability as a parodist of other poets, particularly his contemporaries. |
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His music video Gangnam style, a parodist depiction of the affluent gangnam suburb in seoul, features wild horse-riding dancing. |
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His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist. |
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Foer is, I would say, a naturally noisy writer — a natural parodist, a jokester, full of ideas and special effects, keen to keep us off balance and entertained. |
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As a parodist, he is frequently held to be unsurpassed. |
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