There’s always the issue of what happens to our sense of the original in parodic writing, or painting, or other. In some cases, the original work ends up standing up against the new piece in new and enlightening ways. In other cases, the parody might very well become the new text. In many, the two texts have a kind of dialog and negotiation of the spaces between. And in some cases, nothing happens, and the parody never even registers. Given how very conscientious I was […]