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Parody as a criticism and creative writing: Lewiss Carroll`s Alice in Wonderland

After Kristeva's introduction of “intertextuality” and Barthes' “The Death of the Author” as well as some post-modern theories on the textuality and writing, it is widely acknowledged that there is no original text or author and a literary text is just a re-writing of the existing texts. In this respect, parody, a kind of re-writing, has been re-considered as a new type of writing, not as a comical revision of an older text. And Lewis Carroll's Alice which is made up of parody and re-writing, also could be a typical and pioneering model case of post-modern writings. Jeff Noon's Automated Alice, a parody or re-writing of Carroll's Alice, shows another example of re-writing. However, as a parody of parody, Automated Alice not only confirms the new functions of Carroll's parody, but goes a step further to show that parody or re-writing is an essential form of creative writing in the post-modern era. This paper examines the function of parody as a criticism and creative writing in Carroll's Alice and how in Jeff Noon's Automated Alice, it is also reflected and could be interpreted as a possible mode of post-modern writing.