... of sequels, parodies and fan fiction. This article will attempt to answer these questions, first evaluating the aims and ideals of copyright law, especially in relation to how they relate to the world of books and publishing. This is followed by an appraisal of the value of derivative works such as sequels...

..., variety theatre. These contexts included 1860s free-and-easies and singing saloons where Burns songs and recitations offered both continuity with older Scottish song traditions and subjects for parodies and satirical updating; his championing by Scotch comics and concert singers of the 1880s, like James...

...0 18 09 2003 It is astonishing that James Gibbons Huneker has become the forgotten man of American letters; none of his nearly two dozen volumes of essays,fiction, biography, travel, parodies, memoirs, and letters is presently offered by a commercial publisher. Yet he dominated American arts...

... animadversions found in the reviews mocking the genre's formulaic character, to full-blown parodies. While the quantity of novels advertising themselves as products of the ‘terror-system’ declined during the first two decades of the century, the Gothic migrated downmarket, sustaining itself, post-1820...

...While it may no longer be controversial to claim that satire and parody not only survived the rise of Romantic sincerity but remained central to British poetry, drama, and prints well into the nineteenth century, the achievements of Romantic-era prose satirists are still broadly underappreciated...

... in Isaac Cruikshank's The Near in Blood, The Nearer Bloody (1793). The chapter then considers the largest and most prominent cluster of Macbeth prints, that is, parodies of the weird sisters. The weird sisters have long been the subject of scholarly fascination, but when...

...This chapter studies More Pricks Than Kicks and the available parodies of and allusions to Dante's lines, which reflect certain passages in Dream and in many other Beckett poems of the time. It also studies the complex web of internal references to Dante, which...

...Hitler goes ballistic. From the German-language film Der Untergang (Downfall; 2004); parody version, repurposed with humorous subtitles in English and uploaded to YouTube. This chapter focuses on Adolf Hitler’s afterlife on YouTube. Hitler’s wild-eyed apparition...

... perfection of the heroic body. This register also allows him to examine the link between appetite and sexual desire: if the equivalence between food and women’s body will remain in Marivaux’s following works, the ‘belly’ will never appear again as the material location of desire. bodies Dacier M parody...

..., the conditions under which they can go out of existence, and their relation to perceptually indistinguishable doubles (including forgeries and parodies) are raised and debated. A core theme is that works like paintings, music, literature, sculpture, architecture, films, photographs, multimedia installations...

... unpublished archive material, the book reveals the story of the last years of the old D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the guardian of Savoy tradition for over a hundred years, and the troubled history of its successor. The book explores the rich vein of parodies, spoofs, and spin-offs of the songs, as well...

... homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these encouraged a surge in the number of commercial titles. Today, a wide range of products, produced both by professionals and amateurs, is rapidly gaining a global audience. This book provides an overview...

... Clarke prefers parodies, puns, wordplay, and slapstick, and he displays a rather cruel sense of humor in jocularly describing various deaths and catastrophes. Yet some early works also show Clarke developing his skill in extrapolation and the development of future worlds as well as his interests in outer...

... as beggars, show up uninvited at Philemon and Baucis's poverty-stricken home, which they subsequently transform into a temple of the gods. It compares the epic/realistic description found in this tale to the satirical/realistic tone of Petronius's and Jonathan Swift's parodies. food games insults Moby...

... in gendered power relations and feminist critiques, meaning that strategies like humour and nostalgia became increasingly prominent ways to address cultural anxieties and the ongoing struggle to maintain some kind of contemporary relevance. In particular the chapter discusses the mid-1960s Bond parodies...

...This chapter contains sections on all kinds of children’s songs and rhymes. There are nursery rhymes, schoolyard songs, and parodies of well-known tunes like “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and “On Top of Old Smoky.” School is lampooned, teachers are tortured, and worms, diarrhea, and vomit appear...

...Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertisements...

... outlines how Bach parodied older movements, which had been composed for secular cantatas in the early 1730s, and how he employed hymns as structural elements. An analysis of the composition score shows in what order Bach wrote the individual movements and how he revised both the parodies and the newly...

...). Parodies make fun of an object by copying enough of it to make it recognizable while subverting the message of the original. Some people turn to intellectual property (IP) law in an effort to suppress those parodies. This chapter examines why, and in what circumstances (if any) lead courts can...

... parodies in interwar Poland presents a jigsaw puzzle of referential material that requires close readings of the daily press during the time in which they appeared. The complexity of many of the parodies reflects a readership that was closely acquainted with the traditions of the original text as well...