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Definition of Parody
A parody is a work that mimics the style of another work, artist, or genre in an exaggerated way, usually for comic effect. Parodies can take many forms, including fiction... read full definition
A parody is a work that mimics the style of another work, artist, or genre in an exaggerated way, usually for comic effect. Parodies can... read full definition
A parody is a work that mimics the style of another work, artist, or genre in an exaggerated way, usually... read full definition
Part 1, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Feliciano de Silva:
Cervantes parodies numerous other authors, such as Feliciano de Silva, who wrote within the chivalric literary tradition that is satirized extensively throughout Don Quixote. When describing Don Quixote’s tastes in literature, for example, the narrator states that:
[He] liked none of them so much as those by the famous Feliciano de Silva, because the brilliance of the prose and all that intricate language seemed a treasure to him, never more so than when he was reading those amorous compliments and challenges delivered by letter, in which he often found: ‘The reason for the unreason to which my reason is subjected, so weakens my reason that I have reason to complain of your beauty.’
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Part 1, Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis—Chivalric Literature :
In one of many instances in which Cervantes parodies chivalric literature, Don Quixote imagines how future authors will describe his exploits using extremely florid language:
Unlock with LitCharts A+As our fledgling adventurer rode along, he said to himself: ‘Who can doubt but that in future times, when the true history of my famous deeds sees the light, the sage who chronicles them will, when he recounts this my first sally, so early in the morning, write in this manner: “Scarce had ruddy Apollo spread over the face of the wide and spacious earth the golden tresses of his beauteous hair, and scarce had the speckled little birds with their harmonious tongues hailed in musical and mellifluous melody the approach of rosy Aurora [...]"
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