[Ttha-potm] Fwd: Minute before Meeting

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Jumping the gun here (as the one guilty of introducing "parody" in to this 
conversation)

I was -- as I said earlier - thinking of parodies such as Hardy's "Pink 
Frock" ( a parody of an empty-headed "doll"'s mind-set-- you can almost 
hear the affected "fwock"...)

I favour this definition on WIKI: "Another critic, 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon_Dentith&action=edit&redlink=1>Simon 
Dentith (2000: 9), defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides 
a relatively <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic>polemical allusive 
imitation of another cultural production or practice."

I feel burlesque is rather far-fetched in this case.

David Havird asks of "Minute Before Meeting" - a parody of what?  I 
suggested earlier a mock love "sonnet" written with barely concealed naivety.

Any takers?
Best
Rosemarie

>In response to Prof. Havird, when I look into my copy
>of Fowler I see under 'parody':
>"parody (Lit.); 'side-song'. See BURLESQUE".
>
>Following this advice I then find:
>"BURLESQUE (Lit.); 'ridicule'."
>
>Could Prof. Havird please clarify?
>
>Roy Buckle.
>