18. Spiegelman's pastiche is an act of criticism, an attempt to distill in one place everything specific about Gray's Orphan Annie.
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19. Pastiche-as-criticism brings us back to Austen and Updike, whose parodies were also critical acts.
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20. In reviewing Beckett's "How It Is" Updike adopted prose style Beckett used in that book (no punctuation, short paragraphs).
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21. The role of parody in literary criticism is rich topic. Donald Sutherland in various books on Gertrude Stein came to write like her
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22. Hugh Kenner always shifted his prose to match subject. His Eliot book is Eliotic, Beckett books Beckettian.
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23. A silly putty mind is conducive to creativity. Not an accident that Spiegleman-the-parodist loves Plastic Man.
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24. In conclusion: art is not just just holding up a mirror to nature but holding up a fun house mirror to other art.
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@PolCulture Yeah, those are good examples. I talk about Ware/King in that book of essays on Ware. Borges is also a good model.
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