Linguistic and stylistic peculiarities of genre types of English and American literary parody

Literary parody has been shown to demonstrate a variety of types. Thetechnique, subject and targets of parodying, time reference, leading functions and genre peculiarities define these types. The analysis ofEnglish and American parodies proves that each type of a parody has its own specific linguistic and stylistic characteristics. Accordingto the technique of parodying there are two types of a parody: 1. Parody - parodied text. 2. Parody - medium text - parodied text.When time reference is concerned there are three types of a parody: 1. The author of a parody and the author of a parodied text arecontemporaries. 2. The subject of a parody is the text of a previous epoch. 3. The subject of a parody is a contemporary text while themeans of parodying is a text of a previous epoch. The target determines two types of a parody: 1.Critical, discrediting, negative parody.2. Complimentary, positive parody. When subject of a parody is taken into consideration then four types of a parody can be defined: 1.Literary parody. 2. Parody of other types of art. 3. Speech parody. 4. Social parody when social aspects are parodied. Genre peculiaritiesdefine three types of a parody: 1. Explicit parody - the genre is indicated. 2. Implicit parody - the genre is not indicated. 3. Exparody - when the author meant the text to be a parody while later it is not interpreted as such by the vast majority of readers. According tothe leading functions there are two types of a parody: 1. When the leading function of a parody is mocking its form, we deal with a literaryjoke, literary play. 2. When both the form and the contents are parodied then parody presents a serious genre which can influence an outlookand to some extent ideology of a particular society. The definition of these types of a parody helps in specifying characteristic features of aliterary parody and its various forms. Besides we can trace the things, which a parody shares with some other genres. The typology presentedin this paper leads to better understanding of such an interesting and ambiguous phenomenon as a literary parody.

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