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Article: Universal history as Reworked by 'Satirikon' and 1066 and All That as parody history textbooks: a suggestion of a literary genre.
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2005
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1066 and All That, the famous parody history textbook and classic of British humour, was published in 1930. There is an equivalent in Russian humorous literature: a parody history textbook Universal History as Reworked by 'Satirikon', published in 1910-11. These two works display similarities that raise the questions of influence, imitation, or genre. There is no evidence of influence. The aims of this article are therefore to suggest the defining features of such a genre, to describe the context in which the two specimen works appeared, and thus to initiate debate as to whether other cultures have produced comparable examples.
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