Parody, Pastiche, Collage, Sampling: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 18 March 2007

Doerschuk, Robert L. "John Oswald: The Plexure of Plunderphonics." Keyboard May 1994: 18-19.

Goodwin, Andrew. "Popular Music and Postmodern Theory." Cultural Studies 2 (May 1991): 174-90.

Greenhouse, Linda. "Ruling on Rap Song, High Court Frees Parody from Copyright Law." New York Times 8 Mar. 1994: A1+.

Hall, Kenji. "Japanese Author May Have Inspired Dylan Lyric." Salon.com 8 July 2003.

Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. U of Illinois P, 2001.

Jacoby, William.  "The Not-So-Simple Art of Imitation:  Pastiche, Literary Style, and Raymond Chandler."  Computers and the Humanities 30.1(1996). 

Lethem, Jonathan. "The Ecstasy of Influence." Harper's Feb. 2007: 59-71.

Naremore, James. "Authorship and the Cultural Politics of Film Criticism." Film Quarterly 44.1 (Autumn 1990): 14-23.

Rule, Greg. "They're Making Samples Wrong." Keyboard May 1994: 45+.

Sanjek, David. "'Don't Have to DJ No More': Sampling and the 'Autonomous' Creator." The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi. Durham: Duke UP, 1994. 343-60.

Sanjek, David. "Ridiculing the 'White Bread Original': The Politics of Parody and Preservation of Greatness in Luther Campbell a.k.a. Luke Skyywalker et al. v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc." Cultural Studies 20.2-3 (2006).

Sigelman, Lee, and William Jacoby. "The Not-So-Simple Art of Imitation: Pastiche, Literary Style, and Raymond Chandler." Computers and the Humanities 30 (1996): 11-28.

"Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain." Law and Contemporary Problems 66 (Winter-Spring 2003): 239+.

White, Hayden. Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.