Word: parodist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...books), announced the publication of a new magazine, The American Mercury. Its editors will be H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Its appearance will be monthly, beginning about the first of next year. Those who are acquainted with The London Mercury, so ably conducted by the poet and parodist, J. C. Squire, will hardly expect the new Mercury to be a prototype of the old. The American Mercury plans to offer "a comprehensive picture, critically presented, of the entire American scene "-fine arts, politics, industrial and social relations, science. And it will strive to maintain the point of view...
...life and opinions of an incomparable quartet in a suburban "Garden City" built over an unwholesome marsh. ESSAYS AT LARGE. BOOKS REVIEWED-Two books by J. C. Squire -Doran ($2.00, $2.00). Mr. J. C.' Squire (Solomon Eagle), Editor of The London Mercury, is at once distinguished poet, parodist and critic. With the lightest possible touch, he conveys the most penetrating criticism. In Essays at Large, he gives unlimited scope to his varied interests. In Books Reviewed, as the title indicates, he restricts himself more closely to themes literary. THE FLOWER IN DRAMA-Stark Young-Scribner...
...trick at all to imitate a writer's style, especially if there are habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still...