autoparody

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noun

A parody of one's own work.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounautoparody (plural autoparodies)

plural autoparodies

  1. artA 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
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    1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody.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

    As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

    2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776

Origin

Translations

Polish autoparodia
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APA

autoparody. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoparody

MLA

“autoparody.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoparody. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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