Saturday, May 11

"Sinto-me"

BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick), a form of the comic in art, consisting broadly in an imitation of a work of art with the object of exciting laughter, by distortion or exaggeration, by turning, for example, the highly rhetorical into bombast, the pathetic into the mocksentimental, and especially by a ludicrous contrast between the subject and the style, making gods speak like common men and common men like gods.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Burlesque

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