单词 | self-parody |
释义 | self-parodyn. Intentional or inadvertent parody of one's own literary or artistic style or (in later use) one's usual behaviour, speech, or characteristics. Also: an instance of this; a self-parodying work. ΚΠ 1840 Edinb. Rev. July 474 Self-parody was very unlikely, indeed, to occur to one like him, whose irritable self-love discloses itself in all that he ever wrote. 1890 Academy 1 Feb. 17/1 ‘The weak smile of autumnal sunshine over the wrongs of its own neglect’ (we quote from Kit and Kitty) is a good self-parody of a humorous kind for soliloquising purposes. 1958 S. Spender Engaged in Writing 89 He [spoke]..in the comic manner which was half-serious self-parody. 1997 Times 20 Feb. 35/5 Directors..repeating their stylistic tics so often that their films become self-parodies. 2016 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 6 Aug. f7 Self-parody sometimes works in democracies, too. Winston Churchill..always made sure to carry a big cigar, even when he had no intention of smoking it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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