semi-parodic

Instead he has published the kind of books Rushdie and others were expecting to appear when Vineland did: Mason & Dixon (1997), a vast, semi-parodic historical novel about the surveyors of 18th-century America, and Against the Day (2006), an even vaster fiction about early 20th-century balloonists, anarchists and other characters so numerous and eclectic as to be almost beyond summary.

Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010

I've written before about this genre of prose books inspired by comic books, but all the other published titles I've read are simple, semi-parodic, mass-market entertainment (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

“One bite from him, and it’s all over,” he began in his exuberantly emphatic semi-parodic Aussie vowels, and then let the creature sink its fangs in.

Unfair Dinkum 2006

“One bite from him, and it’s all over,” he began in his exuberantly emphatic semi-parodic Aussie vowels, and then let the creature sink its fangs in.

Unfair Dinkum 2006

“One bite from him, and it’s all over,” he began in his exuberantly emphatic semi-parodic Aussie vowels, and then let the creature sink its fangs in.

Unfair Dinkum 2006