The Enlargement of Various Definitions ‒ Parody and Its Revival

Abstract

Analyzing parody in this contemporary literary and methodological sphere may appear to be anachronistic, considering the specific accounts, that represent quality base, and upgrade the theoretical postulates. Yet, the idea of reactualizing parody in the light of one classic text, such as the novel Don Quixote of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra is not aspiring to provoke transformation of the common theoretical stands (antic, modern, and postmodern), nor their confrontation in order to achieve an isolated valorization. The primary intent is to underline once more the impossibility parody to be connected with certain generic concept (rendering this novel parody of chivalric romances), and then this intent is spread through the multidirectional analysis of parody, the fact that seems to be done necessarily, and comprehensively. Parody in the novel Don Quixote is being analyzed concerning its three-folded nature‒textual, discursive, and phenomenological, elements that describe the conditional nature of parody in general. The textual approach to parody in fact includes the narratological analysis, and the formal acceptance of parody as a trope. The examples that follow the account make parody perceptive through the characteristic of certain personae, playful dispositions, framed texts, transpositions of names, etc. On the other hand, the discursive approach includes examples that highlight narrative specifics, the level of narration, and narrative stance, thus functioning as a second area of parody’s realization. The phenomenological analysis of parody is consequently the third aspect, through which the novel’s possibilities can be depicted, and the selected episode of the enchanted Dulcinea is not the only one, that can be exposed to a certain phenomenological inquiry. Mainly, this approach is directed towards the variations of meaning, and especially the potential stock of the meaning. Through the intentional act (and the effects of parody), this meaning achieves its full actualization.