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autoparody

autoparody noun: a parody of one's own work.

Noun

autoparody (plural autoparodies)

  1. A parody of one's own work.
    • This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN
    • 1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Forms of autoparody

pluralautoparodies

Origin of autoparody

From auto- + parody.

Questions about autoparody

What does autoparody mean?
Autoparody means a parody of one's own work.
What part of speech is autoparody?
Autoparody is a noun.
What is the plural of autoparody?
The plural of autoparody is autoparodies.

Words near autoparody in the dictionary

  1. autoparasitism
  2. autoparasitoid
  3. autoparasitoids
  4. autoparking
  5. autoparodies
  6. autoparody
  7. autopartitioning
  8. autoparts
  9. Autoparts Capital of the Philippines
  10. autopatch
  11. autopatches

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