parodic

Definitions

Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.

Equivalents

Examples

“All gender is parodic in the sense⟳ that it is all imitative, but some forms are more parodic than others because that imitativeness is exposed.”

“From this common background, the G author/redactor seems to have⟳ chosen to highlight the more parodic elements in the tradition, while muting the more serious or somber representation of Aesop's heroic end⟳.”

“So even the pastiche one might expect⟳ to be the most parodic, the fiercest with the "target⟳" author, turns into—at worse^([sic])—an amusing exercise in self-congratulation, of Proust, by Proust.”

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