Abstract
The article is devoted to the interpretation of parody, satire, and caricature within the framework of premodern, modern, and postmodern societies. Considering mainly Western European and Russian cases, the researchers conclude that system of regulations and conventions linked the addressee and the addresser. The article compares some of the strategies and reputational capabilities of the satirical weeklies "Charivari", "Punch", "Spark", "Alarm clock" and "Dragonfly", an attempt is made to rank these publications according to the degree of public consent and disturbance of the public peace. Finally, conclusions are drawn about taboos and topics prohibited by the legal or moral law, the appeal to which has a clearly conflicting potential.
Highlights
The origins of the parody as a cultural genre suggest a complex interaction of empirical and aesthetic reality [1]
Considering mainly Western European and Russian cases, the researchers conclude that system of regulations and conventions linked the addressee and the addresser
Starting with Ancient comedies and finding "low analogs" of high genres in the culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it can be stated that the general parodical mechanism consists in extracting some object from a number of similar ones and giving it comic properties and shades [2]
Summary
The origins of the parody as a cultural genre suggest a complex interaction of empirical and aesthetic reality [1]. Starting with Ancient comedies and finding "low analogs" of high genres in the culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it can be stated that the general parodical mechanism consists in extracting some object (personality, precedent text, episode of political or ideological struggle) from a number of similar ones and giving it comic properties and shades [2]. There are components traditionally revealed: travesty or derogative of a high standard, inversion of the head and bottom, reducing the phenomenon of a normative order to a non-normative one in the cultural analysis of works in a wide range. Voejkov [3,4,5] we can find same cases in different cultures
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