Table of Contents “...-- Parody as a literary figure -- Development of the vulgate -- General chart of hypertextual practices -- Brief parodies -- Oulipian games -- One word for another -- Niagara: A novel -- Burlesque travesty -- Modern travesties -- Imitation as a literary figure -- A text cannot be imitated directly -- Difficulties in distinguishing modes in mimotexts -- Caricatures -- Pastiches -- Flaubert by Proust -- Pastiche in the form of variations -- Self-pastiche -- Fictitious pastiches -- The mock-heroic -- Mixed parody -- The antiromance -- Play It Again, Sam -- La Chasse spirituelle -- Continuations -- Endings for L Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu -- La Fin de Lamiel -- Cyclical continuations -- The Aeneid, Telemachus -- Andromaque, je pense à vous -- Unfaithful continuations -- Murderous continuations -- The Non-Existent Knight -- Supplement -- Sequel, epilogue, Lotte in Weimar -- Generic reactivation -- Transposition -- Translation -- Versification -- Prosification -- Transmetrification -- Transtylization -- Quantitative transformations -- Excision -- Concision -- Condensation -- Digest -- Proust to Mme Scheikévitch -- Pseudosummary in Borges -- Extension -- Expansion -- Amplification -- Ambiguous practices -- Intermodal transmodalization -- Laforgue's Hamlet -- Intramodal transmodalization -- Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- Diegetic transposition, starting with sex -- Proximization -- Pragmatic transformation -- Unamuno, author of Quixote -- Motivation -- Demotivation -- Transmotivation -- Eulogies of Helen -- Secondary valuation -- Devaluation -- Macbett -- Aragon, author of Télémaque -- Naissance de l'Odyssée -- Transvaluation -- Penthesilea -- New supplements -- A baffling hypertext -- Hyperesthetic practices ....”
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