A theory of parody

"I want to arguee for calling such a complex forms of trans-contextualization" and inversion by the name of parody. It is indeed a form of artistic recycling (Rabinowitz), but a very particular form with very complex textual intentionality. Robbe-Grillet's The erasers is a parody of both Oedipus rex and Bley's St. Petesburg in its structure, but the function of the two parodic strains are more difficult to specify. Wht se4ems certain is that they are not the same."(15)

LINDA HUTCHEON

RENÉ MAGRITTE, PERSPECTIVE (LE BALCON DE MANET)