Modernist Parody Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

Sarah Davison

Sarah Davison is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where she is the Director of the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture. She is the author of Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (Oxford, 2023) and Modernist Literatures: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave, 2014). She has published extensively on James Joyce's sources for the 'Oxen of the Sun' episode of Ulysses, as well as his relations to postmodernist authors. She has also published several articles and essays on writers such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, Max Beerbohm, and Virginia Woolf.

Introduction
1. Parody: History and Theory
2. Pasticherie: Ezra Pound's Apprenticeship from his College Verses to Canzoni
3. 'An Atmosphere of Parody': Imagism and Blast
4. Mocking Modernisms: Parody in Little Magazines
5. 'A Moqueur to the Marrow': T. S. Eliot, Parody, and the Writing of The Waste Land
6. A 'Bawd of Parodies': James Joyce's Practices as a Parodist from his Early Writings to Ulysses
7. Parodists of History: Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce