American Literature in Parody

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Excerpt from American Literature in Parody: A Collection of Parody, Satire, and Literary Burlesque of American Writers Past and Present Some highly-regarded savants of an earlier and more principled generation than our own gave currency to the Opinion that the writer of parody was a rather shabby fellow practising an irreverent and parasitic art and an enemy within the gates of the true, the beautiful, and the good. According to this standard, the collector of parody, having not even the excuse of expressing his own aesthetic ego, must be one of the most abandoned of literary riff-raft It may be unnec essary in our enlightened era to say anything in self-defense for indulging in so irresponsible a pastime as editing parodies, but if it were, I would have little to say. It would be futile to deny that the parodist is out for a laugh at somebody's expense or that sitccessful parody can have a damaging effect upon the uninitiated. For the present volume I seek only the audience of the experienced who need no advice or justification from me. As for the uninitiated, they will endure, having little interest in so shady a profession as parody anyway. For me, however, the problem of parody is resolved as easily as Dr. Johnson disposed of the problem of free will - all theory is against it and all experience is for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.