1.
Am
I my brother's keeper?
Then the LORD said to
Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s
keeper?”
Genesis
4:9
2.
Parody
A parody, in current
use, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original
work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or
ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, "parody
… is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another
critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as "any cultural practice which
provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural
production or practice." Parody may be found in art or culture, including
literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier,
somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), animation, gaming and
film.
3.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a
legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician
royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in
which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
4.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a 1964
musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical of the same name,
based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw. Directed by George Cukor, the film depicts misogynistic
and arrogant phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he wagers that he can take
flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and turn her Cockney accent into a
proper English one, thereby making her presentable in high society.
5.
ab—negative
abnormal, abolish,
aboard
6.
Novel of manners—June Austin
The novel of manners
is a literary genre that deals with aspects of behavior, language, customs and
values characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical
context. The genre emerged during the final decades of the 18th century. The
novel of manners often shows a conflict between individual aspirations or
desires and the accepted social codes of behaviour. There is a vital
relationship between manners, social behaviour and character. Physical
appearances are overall less emphasised while manners and social behaviour
remain the particular interests in the novel. The idea of manners assumes not
only a social significance, as it is applied today, but a moral one as well,
which preceded the social context in which it was used. What connects the two
is the idea of "pleasing".
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