Morphological Mutability of Modern Critical Genres: Theatre Review as a Parody

Natallia Lysova

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Morphological Mutability of Modern Critical Genres: Theatre Review as a Parody

Natallia Lysova

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 11, Issue 3)

Received: 15 January 2022 Accepted: 8 February 2022 Published: 10 June 2023

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It considers specific features of genre evolvement of theatre reviews. Analyzing theater review transformations from the 1960s to the 2020s, the author notes that understanding the changes in the morphology of a theatrical review can help study tendencies in the modern criticism in general, and in the parody genre in particular. Reading closely theatre reviews of the literary weekly “Literature and Art” of 1960 and those of the same literary weekly of the 2020s and of the social and political newspaper “SB. Belarus Today” of the recent years, the author underscores that, unlike in the 1960s, in the 2020s journalists seem to detach from the professional circle of problems. The research marks that criticism has come to respond to journalism materials themselves (self-criticism) as well as to the cultural and social context of modern art rather than to particular fiction texts, theatrical premiers as information agenda. It also highlights that criticism and parody have a lot in common through their journalistic nature: the analysis of artistic phenomena in the modern culture. Yet, recently, in the changing medium space, criticism makes parody not fiction or journalistic text, but the communicative process, which has created some new roles of the critic, the author and the reader. It concludes that social and cultural situation around theatre determines the changes in the genre of theatre reviews in the modern outlets, putting them into pre-journalistic phase or literary-educational mode of associations and contexts. As a result, both viewers and critics develop new qualities.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 11, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20231103.15
Page(s)	127-131
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Parody, Theatre, Model, Imitation, Parodic Person, Criticism, Review, Genre, Culture

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Faculty of Journalism, Belarusian State University, Minsk, The Republic of Belarus

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