spoof = 'literary imitation'

[Jeff Prucher]

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>>From a blog, 2011:
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>"According to Russian literary historian D. S. Mirsky, Tolstoy's story 'The
>Prisoner of the Caucasus' was a kind of spoof on a Byronic poem of the same
>name, written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1822."
>
>OK, the blogger understands that Pushkin's poem is lushly Romantic and
>Tolstoy's story, written fifty years later, is sober and realistic.
>Undoubtedly Tolstoy's choice of title suggests that *his* tale is a kind of
>contrastive commentary on Pushkin. The plots   are quite similar.
>
>But it is neither a parody nor a send-up nor a burlesque nor a counterfeit
>nor anything else that I associate with a "spoof."


I believe the word the writer was looking for was "deconstruction."
Jeff

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