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Adjective

parodic (comparative more parodic, superlative most parodic)

• Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.
  • ✤ Synonyms: parodial, parodical, parodistic
  • ✤ 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.¹
  • ✤ 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.²
  • ✤ 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.³

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Footnotes

1. 2005, Moya Lloyd, Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics, page 139: ↩

2. 2010, Leslie Kurke, Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, page 176: ↩

3. 2013, James F. Austin, Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern: Or Why Style Matters, page 49: ↩