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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
Tobias Wolff

Meaning of "self-parody" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-PARODY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-PARODY

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Self-Parody is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-PARODY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Self-parody

A self-parody is a parody of oneself or one's own work. As an artist accomplishes it by imitating his or her own characteristics, a self-parody is potentially difficult to distinguish from especially characteristic productions. Sometimes critics use the word figuratively to mean the artist's style and preoccupations appear as strongly in some work as they would in a parody. Such works may result from habit, self-indulgence, or an effort to please an audience by providing something familiar. Ernest Hemingway has frequently been a target for such comments. An example from Paul Johnson: Some was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably The Old Man and the Sea, though there was an element of self-parody in that too. Political polemicists use the term similarly, as in this headline of a 2004 blog posting. "We Would Satirize Their Debate And Post-Debate Coverage, But They Are So Absurd At This Point They Are Their Own Self-Parody".

Definition of self-parody in the English dictionary

The definition of self-parody in the dictionary is the act or an instance of mimicking oneself in a humorous or satirical way.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-PARODY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-PARODY

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Synonyms and antonyms of self-parody in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «self-parody» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-PARODY

Find out the translation of self-parody to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-parody from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-parody» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自蠢事
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autoparodia
570 millions of speakers

English

self-parody
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म पैरोडी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محاكاة ساخرة الذاتي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самопародия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto- paródia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-প্যারডি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

auto- parodie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Parodi diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbstparodie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己風刺
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 패러디
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Parody
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự nhại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய பகடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची विडंबन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini parodisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- parodia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

self- parodia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самопародія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- parodie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - παρωδία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- parodie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

själv parodi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

self- parodi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-parody

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PARODY»

The term «self-parody» is normally little used and occupies the 115.318 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PARODY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-parody

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QUOTES WITH «SELF-PARODY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-parody.
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Tobias Wolff
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-PARODY»

Discover the use of self-parody in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-parody and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives
some seventy years later, called "the literature of self-parody."12 This literature, whose prime paradigm is Joyce's Ulysses, makes fun of itself as it goes along. It proposes not the rewards so much as the limits of its own procedures: it shapes ...
Beate Müller, 1997
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Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
This original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic ...
Dennis Denisoff, 2006
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The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
Certainly, parody is a key component in the carnivalesque; however, looking one step further, the notion of self-parody also appears as an argumentative form within the carnival. SELF-PARODY AT THE CARNIVAL Bakhtin (1984b) sees the  ...
Trischa Goodnow Knapp, 2011
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The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde ...
From the beginning of his career, Wilde's aesthetic self,fashioning was at once an act of advocacy of aestheticism and of self,parody. Establishing himself as an aesthete in the early 1880s, Wilde tried to make a living as a professedly high ...
Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, Julie Hibbard, 2002
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Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "feminine"
Both Nietzsche and Derrida attempt to undermine traditional philosophical discourse by employing parody and self-parody. Nietzsche attempts to undermine philosophical discourse from within by undermining his own discourse. He maintains ...
Kelly Oliver, 1995
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Is Hip Hop Dead?: The Past, Present, and Future of America's ...
Dre's development toward self-parody matches hip hop at large. The hip hop community has long feared its eventual assimilation, and I ask whether this has happened. Rap's self-parody is widespread. It is a huge part of what Snoop Dogg  ...
Mickey Hess, 2007
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Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
Insofar as he underscores and thereby draws attention to his own rhetorical maneuvers, Gorgias does not present his own writing as free of rhetorical conventions. In this respect, he may be said to be engaging in self-parody as well as parody ...
Scott Porter Consigny, 2001
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Persuasion in Society: Second Edition
Whereas self-referential anti-ads focus on corporate advertising practices and offer critiques of those practices within the ads themselves, anti-ads that employ self-parody have another focus. In anti-ads using self-parody, the object of attention ...
Herbert W. Simons, Jean Jones, 2011
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Stars: The Film Reader
Combined with the breaking of gender roles and his parody of Hollywood glamour stars, self-parody serves as a third variation within Divine's persona. Apart from the stars discussed above, Divine himself became a minor screen cult star.
Lucy Fischer, Marcia Landy, 2004
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Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German Literature in ...
Although Christian appears in other chapters as well, in exploring this example of self-parody and intertextuality, I focus on the tragicomic chapter 12, entitled "Die Killer." Readers of all ages familiar with American film noir or popular crime films  ...
Jill E. Twark, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-PARODY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-parody is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dick Cheney descends further into self-parody, hints Iran deal will …
Former Vice President Dick Cheney reacted to the Iranian nuclear deal with his usual doom and gloom on Tuesday, claiming that the deal brings the world the ... «Salon, Jul 15»
2
The “Duck Dynasty” American dream: A cynical self-parody of …
It is well past the prime of “Duck Dynasty.” The eighth season of “Duck Dynasty,” debuting Wednesday night, may well be the show's last. The docu-series about ... «Salon, Jun 15»
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'It's a work of self-parody art': Can anyone spot what's wrong with …
'It's a work of self-parody art': Can anyone spot what's wrong with these two tweets from Hillary Clinton? Posted at 6:41 pm on June 19, 2015 by Twitchy Staff ... «Twitchy, Jun 15»
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Scream Queens Trailer Piles On The Self-Parody
Fox is betting big on Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk this fall with the American Horror Story creators' campy horror-comedy Scream Queens, and now that the ... «We Got This Covered, May 15»
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David Hasselhoff Reaches Peak Self-Parody in Promo for Kung Fury
Dinosaurs, fingerless gloves, punks, skateboards, hacking and traveling back in time to try to kill Hitler. It's everything you ever loved about the '80s in one ... «Adweek, Apr 15»
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From India's anchor to embarrassing self-parody: How Arnab …
It's ironic that Arnab Goswami has gone into outrage overdrive with the hashtag #NirbhayaInsulted. Ironic because night after night, Goswami makes his living ... «Firstpost, Mar 15»
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Homophobe Alec Baldwin Turns to Self-Parody as HBO's NYC Mayor
With his days as a cinematic leading man more than a decade behind him, serial-homophobe Alec Baldwin has agreed to executive produce and star in a HBO ... «Breitbart News, Mar 15»
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Unintentional self-parody alert: Dana Milbank predicts “social …
You know what will happen if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell? According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, “the nation's ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
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GOP's “freedom” self-parody: Ex-senator unveils new “freedom …
GOP's “freedom” self-parody: Ex-senator unveils new “freedom option” for healthcare! Phil Gramm wants to give us "freedom"... to force people back into having ... «Salon, Feb 15»
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Film review: Knight of Cups is Terrence Malick's worst
The result is ludicrous self-parody – somewhere between a Calvin Klein aftershave advertisement and a coffee-table book about the modernist mansions of the ... «BBC News, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Self-Parody [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-parody>. Apr 2024 ».
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