Metaparody

{{short description|Form of humor consisting of parodying the parody}} '''Metaparody''' is a form of humor or literary technique consisting "parodying the parody of the original", sometimes to the degree that the viewer is unclear as to which subtext is genuine and which subtext parodic.<ref name="SaulCaryl1989">{{cite book|author1=Morson, Gary Saul|author2=Emerson, Caryl|title=Rethinking Bakhtin: extensions and challenges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SjtZotCHe2wC&pg=PA63|accessdate=20 April 2013|year=1989|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-0810-3|pages=63–}}</ref> The American literary critic Gary Saul Morson has written extensively on the topic:<ref name="Terkourafi2010">{{cite book|author=Marina Terkourafi|title=The Languages of Global Hip Hop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoCETlhOPDEC&pg=PA234|accessdate=20 April 2013|date=23 September 2010|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8264-3160-8|pages=234–}}</ref>

{{quote|''In texts of this type, each voice may be taken to be parodic of the other; readers are invited to entertain each of the resulting contradictory interpretations in potentially endless succession. In this sense such texts remain fundamentally open... readers may witness the alternation of statement and counterstatement, interpretation and antithetical interpretation, up to a conclusion which fails, often ostentatious, to resolve their hermeneutic perplexity''. (Morson 1989)<ref name="Barta2001">{{cite book|author=Peter I. Barta|title=Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhVIPn2vZSAC&pg=PA110|accessdate=20 April 2013|year=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-26991-9|pages=110–}}</ref>}}

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