Terminologies
Textual Examples
Theories of Parody
Examples of Parody
100

"the relationship most often labelled "commentary"... the critical relationship par excellence"

What is metatextuality?

100

An example of a hypertext of the Odyssey.

What is James Joyce's Ulysses? 
100

At its simplest, the playful transformation of a text.

What is parody?

100

An example of a parody of the Odyssey.

What is O Brother, Where Art Thou?

200

Examples of this "text" include titles, subtitles, chapter headings, etc.

What is a paratext?

200

An example of a metatext of the Odyssey.

What is Egbert J. Bakker's Homer: Odyssey Book IX (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)? 

200

At its simplest, the satirical imitation of a text. 

What is caricature?

200

An example of a transposition of the Odyssey.

What is Derek Walcott's The Odyssey: A Stage Version?

300

"a relationship of copresence between two texts or among several texts... eidetically and typically... the actual presence of one text within another."

What is intertextuality?

300

An example of a paratext of the Odyssey

What are the book divisions of the Odyssey?

300

At its simplest, the playful imitation of a text. 

What is pastiche? 

300

An example of a forgery of the Odyssey.

What is the Aeneid?

400

Any relationship uniting a later text with an earlier one that is NOT commentary. 

What is hypertextuality?

400

An example of an intertext from the Odyssey 

What is the opening line of Ezra Pound's Cantos?

400

At its simplest, the satirical transformation of a text?

What is travesty?

400

An example of a travesty of the Odyssey.

What is "Thomas couldn't come up with a good example"?*

*"The choices are inevitably arbitrary and even unfair, since specific works are always, and happily so, much more complex than the species to which they are affixed."

500

A "completely silent" relationship involving "the entire set of general or transcendent categories... from which emerges each singular text"

What is architextuality? 

500

An example of something belonging to the "architextuality" of the Odyssey?

What is the Archaic Greek oral tradition? 

500

The serious imitation of a text. 

What is forgery?

500

An example of a caricature of the Odyssey.

What is Simon Armitage's Poundland?

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