Genre of imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work

Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)

Palimpsests : literature in the second degree / Gérard Genette ; translated by Channa Newman & Claude Doubinsky ; foreword by Gerald Prince.

Swift's parody / Robert Phiddian.

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Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)

Palimpsests : literature in the second degree / Gérard Genette ; translated by Channa Newman & Claude Doubinsky ; foreword by Gerald Prince.

Swift's parody / Robert Phiddian.