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{{Short description|A parody of oneself}}
]'s 1864 illustration for "The Lay of St. Odille" in '']'' has been called "a very mild and good-natured parody" of his own painting of ] (below). In both, the saint rises above the other figures and produces "a spiritual glow". The arc of cherubs replaces the round arch with cherubs in ''St. Cecilia'', and the dirt bank replaces a marble pedestal. Also, the fat man at right is taken from a trumpeter in another illustration by Tenniel, for ]'s "]".<ref>{{cite book | last = Simpson | first = Roger | year = 1994 | title = Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His Work | publisher = Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | pages = 69–70 | isbn = 0838634931 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=EoiceFSYw_wC&pg=PA69 | accessdate = 2009-01-17}}</ref>]]
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] on ]'s "Song for Saint Cecilia's Day", c. 1849]]
]'s 1864 illustration for "The Lay of St. Odille" in '']'' has been called "a very mild and good-natured parody" of his own painting of ] (below). In both, the saint rises above the other figures and produces "a spiritual glow". The arc of cherubs replaces the arch with cherubs in ''St. Cecilia'', and the dirt bank replaces a marble pedestal. Also, the fat man at right is taken from a trumpeter in another illustration by Tenniel, for ]'s "]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Roger|year=1994|title=Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His Work|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|pages=69–70|isbn=0-8386-3493-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EoiceFSYw_wC&pg=PA69|accessdate=January 17, 2009}}</ref>]]
A '''self-parody''' is a ] 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 (''exempli gratia'': a situation in which a ]'s mannerisms are typically ponderous, ], and Latinizing).
] on ]'s "Song for Saint Cecilia's Day", {{circa}} 1849]]


A '''self-parody''' is a ] of oneself or one's own work. As an artist accomplishes it by imitating their own characteristics, a self-parody is potentially difficult to distinguish from especially characteristic productions. Self-parody may be used to parody someone else's characteristics, or lacking, by overemphasizing and/or exaggerate one's own. Overemphasis can be made for the prevailing attitude in their life's work, social group, lifestyle and subculture. Including lines and points made by others or by the recipient of the self-parody directing it to a parody of someone else which that other person is likely to remember and can't de-emphasize without frustration.
Sometimes critics use the word figuratively to mean the artist's style and preoccupations appear as strongly (and perhaps as ineptly) 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. ] has frequently been a target for such comments. An example from ]'s book ''Intellectuals'':


Sometimes critics use the word figuratively to indicate that the artist's style and preoccupations appear as strongly (and perhaps as ineptly) 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. An example from ] writing about ]:
:Some was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably '']'', though there was an element of self-parody in that too.
:Some was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably '']'', though there was an element of self-parody in that too.<ref>{{cite book|last=Paul|first=Johnson|authorlink=Paul Johnson (writer)|year=1988|title=Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky|publisher=Harper & Row|page=233|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTqHpZech0YC&pg=PT233|isbn=0-06-016050-0}}</ref>


==Examples of self-parody==
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".<sup></sup>
The following are deliberate self-parodies or are at least sometimes considered to be so.


===Literature===
== Examples of self-parody ==
* In '']'', the fictional storyteller ] sometimes tells folk tales with similar themes and story lines that can be seen as parodies of each other. For example, "Wardan the Butcher's Adventure With the Lady and the Bear" parallels "The King's Daughter and the Ape", "] and the Two Slave-Girls" has a similar relationship to "Harun al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls" - and "The Angel of Death With the Proud King and the Devout Man" has two possible parodies: "The Angel of Death and the Rich King" and "The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Arabian Nights and Orientalism: Perspectives from East & West|last=Yuriko Yamanaka|first=Tetsuo Nishio|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=1-85043-768-8|page=81}}</ref> This observation needs to be tempered by our knowledge of the nature of folk tales, and the way this collection "grew" rather than being deliberately compiled.
* ] "]" in '']'' shows "Geoffrey Chaucer" as a timid writer of ]. It has been argued that the tale parodies, among other romances, Chaucer's own '']''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bradbury|first=Nancy Mason |title=Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England|year=1998|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=189|isbn=0-252-02403-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5x-l_4dJSoC&pg=PA189}}</ref>
* "Nephelidia",<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822125509/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2096.html|date=August 22, 2009}}</ref> a poem by ].
* "Municipal", a poem by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/municipal.html |title=Poetry Lovers' Page - Rudyard Kipling: Municipal |publisher=Poetryloverspage.com |date= |accessdate=May 16, 2014}}</ref>
* "L'Art" and "To Hulme (T. E.) and Fitzgerald (A Certain)",<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cNm2TYIn5wC&pg=PA163 |title=Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound - Ezra Pound - Google Boeken |isbn=9780811208437 |accessdate=May 16, 2014|last1=Pound |first1=Ezra |year=1982 |publisher=New Directions }}</ref> poems by ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gibson|first=Mary Ellis|year=1995|title=Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=|isbn=0-8014-3133-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/epicreinventedez00gibs/page/71}}</ref>
* "Afternoon of a Cow", a short story by ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Macdonald|first=Dwight|authorlink=Dwight Macdonald|year=1965|title=Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm—and After|publisher=Modern Library|page=561}}</ref>
* ] often discussed his own work, sometimes in the form of parody, as in "How to Write a Blackwood Article" and the short story that follows it, "A Predicament".
* '']'' is a novel by ] in the form of a long, pedantic, self-centered commentary on a much shorter poem. It may parody his commentary on his translation of ]'s '']'', in which the commentary was highly detailed and much longer than the poem. Both the poet and the commentator have been called self-parodies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/hornboyd.htm|last1=Hornick|first1=Neil|last2=Boyd|first2=Brian|authorlink2=Brian Boyd|title=''Pale Fire'' and ''The Prisoner of Zenda'': an exchange between Neil Hornick and Brian Boyd|work=Zembla|publisher=Penn State University}}</ref>
* The short story "]" by ] is described by Asimov himself as a 'spoof' in '']''.


===Film and television===
The following are deliberate self-parodies or are at least sometimes considered to be so:
<!-- List only ones in which the self-parody is its main theme. Do not count brief cameo appearances -->
* '']'' is the twentieth production of ] long-running ] ] and ], and was written as parody of its own franchise.
* '']'' is a Disney movie which is both a homage to, and self-parody of, previous ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/19/the-20-best-fairytale-films/enchanted-2007/|title=The 20 best fairytale films|author=|date=April 25, 2016|work=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] as Jack Slater in the film '']''. Slater uses many of Schwarzenegger's action star characterizations including saying one-liners. Schwarzenegger even cameos as himself at the on-screen Slater film premiere.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/review/185880-last-action-hero/|title='Last Action Hero' Is a Parody That Misses Its Own Point|author=|date=|work=popmatters.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://splitsider.com/2012/08/total-recall-and-schwarzeneggers-self-parody/|title='Total Recall' and Schwarzenegger's Self-Parody|author=|date=August 1, 2012|work=splitsider.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3hTV8v2Ueq8C&pg=PA125|title=Mr. Mikey's Video Views; Volume One|first=J. Michael|last=Dlugos|date=January 6, 2017|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=9781552123164|accessdate=January 6, 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself as a B-movie actor who is called to fight a spirit who turns out to be real in '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/amp/Evil-Dead-star-Bruce-Campbell-here-Saturday-2195444.php|title="Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell here Saturday|first=Louis B. |last=Parks|date=September 29, 2011|work=]|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself as an actor who reinvents his career in '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/arts/television/02rhod.html|title=Chris Kattan, Reincarnated in Mumbai|first=Joe |last=Rhodes|date=July 31, 2009 | work=The New York Times|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself as the title character's friend in the sitcom '']''.<ref name="btglifestyle"/>
* ] plays a fictionalised and exaggerated version of himself in the television series '']''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-04 |title=Top Five: Actors playing dubious versions of themselves |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/04/04/top-five-actors-playing-dubious-versions-of-themselves/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself as an aspiring action star in the series '']''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2023/04/kevin-hart-comedy-series-die-hart-renewed-season-3-roku-channel-season-2-ratings-1235323904/|title=Kevin Hart Comedy Series ‘Die Hart’ Renewed At Roku Channel After Record Premiere Weekend For Season 2|first=Katie|last=Campione|date=April 13, 2023}}</ref>
* ] portrays herself in the Netflix sitcom '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/netflix-s-wonderfully-weird-lady-dynamite-reinvents-the-1798187839|title = Netflix's wonderfully weird Lady Dynamite reinvents the stand-up sitcom| date=May 18, 2016 }}</ref>
* ] plays a satirical version of himself in '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2012/06/27/showtimes-satirical-episodes-starring-matt-leblanc-scores-in-season-2/ |title=Showtime's satirical 'Episodes' starring Matt LeBlanc scores in season 2 |first=Joanne |last=Ostrow |work=] |date=2012-06-27 |access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref>
* ] voices and spoofs himself as a former boxer who becomes a detective in the adult cartoon '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/10/29/mike_tyson_tries_out_pop_culture_self_parody_why_its_so_hard_to_spoof_yourself/|title=Mike Tyson tries out pop culture self-parody: Why it's so hard to spoof yourself|first=Erin|last=Keane|date=October 29, 2014|work=salon.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] in the '']'' series, where he plays "an extreme version of himself who enjoys drugs, female hookers and alcohol etc."<ref name="btglifestyle">{{cite web|url=http://www.btglifestyle.com/blog/2013/06/10/the-art-of-self-parody/|title=The Art of Self-Parody - BTG Lifestyle|author=|date=June 10, 2013|work=btglifestyle.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref><ref name="dailybeast">{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/11/21-best-celebrity-self-parodies-in-honor-of-this-is-the-end.html|title=21 Best Celebrity Self-Parodies in Honor of 'This is the End'|first=Marlow|last=Stern|date=June 11, 2013|work=thedailybeast.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself in the film '']''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Mekado |date=2022-04-22 |title=How Nicolas Cage Parodies Himself in 'Massive Talent' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/movies/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-clip.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Jake |date=2022-04-21 |title=Being Nicolas Cage: why a self-mocking parody was his toughest act yet |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/being-nicolas-cage-why-a-self-mocking-parody-was-his-toughest-act-yet-20220418-p5ae77.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>
* ] as Damon Killian in the film '']''. Dawson parodies his '']'' persona as the film's game show host.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2013/03/from-archive-running-man-1987.html|work=John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV | title=From the Archive: The Running Man (1987)|first=John Kenneth|last=Muir|date=March 15, 2013|via=Blogspot|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] portrays himself in the self-produced sitcom '']'', which also stars his real-life wife and child.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2014/01/rob-schneider-self-made-sitcom-real-rob-673480/|title=Rob Schneider Challenges TV Biz Model With Independently Produced Comedy Series He Co-Created, Financed & Stars In|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=January 30, 2014|website=]|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref>
* ] as Agent Neville Flynn in '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2006/08/18/snakes_5/|title=Snakes on a Plane|first=Stephanie|last=Zacharek|date=August 18, 2006|work=salon.com|accessdate=January 6, 2017}}</ref><ref name="EWKickAsp">{{cite magazine|last=Jensen|first=Jeff|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1219727_1_0_,00.html| url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719233726/http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1219727_1_0_,00.html | archivedate=July 19, 2008 | title=Kicking Asp|magazine=]|date=August 4, 2006|accessdate=July 3, 2014}}</ref>
* The 1990 film '']'' features ] playing a parody of his famous character from '']''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rainer |first1=Peter |title=MOVIE REVIEW: The Don of a New Day: Film: Marlon Brando pulls off a coup by slyly parodying his ‘Godfather’ role in ‘The Freshman.’ |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-20-ca-19-story.html |access-date=3 March 2024 |publisher=L.A. Times |date=July 20, 1990}}</ref>
* The later ] films, specifically those with ] and ] in ], have been called self-parodies.<ref>{{cite web|author=Alexandre Paquin |url=http://www.filmtribune.com/dieanotherday.html |title=The Film Tribune - Die Another Day (2002) |accessdate=May 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020030317/http://www.filmtribune.com/dieanotherday.html |archivedate=October 20, 2006 }}</ref>
* The ] film franchise parodies the popular horror film genre. ] parodies the Scary Movie franchise itself.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Sean |title=Self-Parody |url=https://seanmiller.us/blog/self-parody/ |website=Dr. Sean's Blog |access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref>
* The 2023 film ], directed by ] and starring ], is an extended self-parody of the ] toy franchise.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fernández-Santos |first1=Elsa |title=Barbie: An overly calculated, complacent feminist self-parody |url=https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/barbie-an-overly-calculated-complacent-feminist-self-parody.html |access-date=7 March 2024 |publisher=El País |date=July 21, 2023}}</ref>
* The penultimate episode of '']'', "]" involves the main characters watching a play of their own journey. The play itself is a self-parody of the entire story of ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' up to that point.


===Video games===
*In the '']'', the fictional storyteller ] sometimes tells folk tales with similar themes and story lines that can be seen as parodies of each other. For example, "Wardan the Butcher's Adventure With the Lady and the Bear" parallels "The King's Daughter and the Ape", "] and the Two Slave-Girls" has a similar relationship to "Harun al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls" - and "The Angel of Death With the Proud King and the Devout Man" has two possible parodies: "The Angel of Death and the Rich King" and "The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel"<ref>{{citation|title=The Arabian Nights and Orientalism: Perspectives from East & West|last=Yuriko Yamanaka|first=Tetsuo Nishio|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=1850437688|page=81}}</ref>. This observation needs to be tempered by our knowledge of the nature of folk tales, and the way this collection "grew" rather than being deliberately compiled.
* In ]'s ''Luigi's Mansion'' games, the character ] presents ] with a communication device designed as a parody of a Nintendo portable console, as such the "]" in the ], the "]" in '']'', and the "]" in '']''.<ref name="Kotaku cites Luigi's Mansion">{{cite web | url=https://kotaku.com/luigis-latest-parody-nintendo-console-is-the-best-one-y-1839072375 | title=Luigi's Latest Parody Nintendo Console Is The Best One Yet | work=] | first=Chris | last=Kohler | date=October 16, 2019 | accessdate=October 20, 2019}}</ref>
*Chaucer's "]" in '']'' shows "Geoffrey Chaucer" as a timid writer of doggerel. It has been argued that the tale parodies, among other romances, ]'s own '']''.<sup></sup>
* ]'s '']'' games parody their own '']'' games, as well as several other games they have created. Similar games from other companies that parody their own games include ]'s '']'' and ]'s '']''.
*"Nephelidia",<sup></sup> a poem by ].
*"Municipal", a poem by ].<sup></sup>
*"L'Art" and "To Hulme (T. E.) and Fitzgerald (A Certain)",<sup></sup> poems by ].<ref>{{cite book | last = Gibson | first = Mary Ellis | year = 1995 | title = Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians | publisher = Cornell University Press | pages = 71–72 | isbn = 0-8014-3133-6}}</ref>
*"Afternoon of a Cow", a short story by ].
*] often discussed his own work, sometimes in the form of parody, as in ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'' and the short story that follows it.
*'']'', a novel by ] in the form of a long, pedantic, self-centered commentary on a much shorter poem. It may parody his commentary on his translation of ]'s '']''; the commentary was highly detailed and much longer than the poem.
*"Errantry",<sup></sup> a poem by ] that parodies his "] was a Mariner".
*The song "Chicken in Black", by ], parodies his persona as "the Man in Black". The accompanying ] shows Cash robbing a bank dressed as a chicken.
*Several actors in '']''
*In the film '']'', the actor ] parodied his performances as the host of the game show '']''.
*The later ] films have often been called self-parodies.<sup></sup>
*In the film '']'', ] plays a dentist, Dr. Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., who believes himself to be Moore in the James Bond role.
*'']'', a ] by ], parodies his successful manga '']'' and '']''.
*] '']'' series of video games, a parody of '']'', features many characters from the company's many various series. ''Parodius'' is the only series that parodies the other games made by the same company; other companies have made games that parody themselves, but have not dedicated a full-fledged series to self-parody.
*] often parodies his own works in the '']'' series of ]s. The minor character ] in '']'' was a parody of ], the protagonist of '']''. The characters ] and Raiden were also parodied in an early ] 2005 promotional trailer for '']''. A sequel to this parody entitled ''Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser'' was shown at ] 2005.
*The television actress and hostess ] has parodied her own work and public image on TV comedies.
*Many ]s, like ], ] and ], have parodied their own personalities and stand-up material on successful sitcoms.
*] engaged in 130 minutes of intentional self-parody in the movie '']'', where he steps off-screen into the Real World. (In the Movie World, he notices a standee touting ] starring in '']''.)
*] in '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']'' (in a short scene where he quotes his famous "talking to me" lines from '']'' word for word]]).
*] in '']''.
*] in '']'': her character Tess Ocean unsuccessfully impersonates Julia Roberts.
* ] has often parodied his work from the old '']'' TV series, including his role as ] of Quahog, ], in the ] television show '']''.
* ] and his rendition of ] at the 1978 Sci-Fi Film Awards.
* The '']'' episodes '']'' and '']'' were largely self-parodies filled with ]s that celebrated the show's 100th and 200th episodes, respectively.
*'']'' self-parodies her single '']'' and a verse in her song '']''.
* '']'' in '']''.
* Alan Menken's song, "That's How You Know" from '']'' is a self-parody of songs such as "Be our Guest" and "Under the Sea"
* A series of ] car-insurance commercials involve testimonials from customers while celebrities re-iterate the stories their own way. ] presents the story as he would voice a movie trailer, and ] periodically comments that she can't feel her face.
*] in '']'' blatantly showcases the attributes he is known for portraying, especially his use of profanity.
*] parodies himself in the ] series of comedy films. His persona in the films is that of a partying womanizer. However, he came out as being gay prior to the release of ''Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay''.
*] parodies himself on the NBC sitcom '']''.
* The game ] was self-parodied in its rerelease as ]: the only change was that keyboards connected to the characters replaced guns.
* In the movie ], ] can be seen doing a self-parody in the court room scene of the film.
* '']'' was a self-parody of ]' famous '']'' shorts.


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==References== ==References==
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* Paul Johnson, ''Intellectuals'' (1988), ISBN 0-297-79395-0
* Nancy Mason Bradbury, ''Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England'' (1998), ISBN 0-252-02403-6


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A parody of oneself

John Tenniel's 1864 illustration for "The Lay of St. Odille" in The Ingoldsby Legends has been called "a very mild and good-natured parody" of his own painting of St. Cecilia (below). In both, the saint rises above the other figures and produces "a spiritual glow". The arc of cherubs replaces the arch with cherubs in St. Cecilia, and the dirt bank replaces a marble pedestal. Also, the fat man at right is taken from a trumpeter in another illustration by Tenniel, for John Milton's "L'Allegro".
Tenniel's fresco on John Dryden's "Song for Saint Cecilia's Day", c. 1849

A self-parody is a parody of oneself or one's own work. As an artist accomplishes it by imitating their own characteristics, a self-parody is potentially difficult to distinguish from especially characteristic productions. Self-parody may be used to parody someone else's characteristics, or lacking, by overemphasizing and/or exaggerate one's own. Overemphasis can be made for the prevailing attitude in their life's work, social group, lifestyle and subculture. Including lines and points made by others or by the recipient of the self-parody directing it to a parody of someone else which that other person is likely to remember and can't de-emphasize without frustration.

Sometimes critics use the word figuratively to indicate that the artist's style and preoccupations appear as strongly (and perhaps as ineptly) 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. An example from Paul Johnson writing about Ernest Hemingway:

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.

Examples of self-parody

The following are deliberate self-parodies or are at least sometimes considered to be so.

Literature

  • In One Thousand and One Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherezade sometimes tells folk tales with similar themes and story lines that can be seen as parodies of each other. For example, "Wardan the Butcher's Adventure With the Lady and the Bear" parallels "The King's Daughter and the Ape", "Harun al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls" has a similar relationship to "Harun al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls" - and "The Angel of Death With the Proud King and the Devout Man" has two possible parodies: "The Angel of Death and the Rich King" and "The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel". This observation needs to be tempered by our knowledge of the nature of folk tales, and the way this collection "grew" rather than being deliberately compiled.
  • Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales shows "Geoffrey Chaucer" as a timid writer of doggerel. It has been argued that the tale parodies, among other romances, Chaucer's own Troilus and Criseyde.
  • "Nephelidia", a poem by A. C. Swinburne.
  • "Municipal", a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
  • "L'Art" and "To Hulme (T. E.) and Fitzgerald (A Certain)", poems by Ezra Pound.
  • "Afternoon of a Cow", a short story by William Faulkner.
  • Edgar Allan Poe often discussed his own work, sometimes in the form of parody, as in "How to Write a Blackwood Article" and the short story that follows it, "A Predicament".
  • Pale Fire is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov in the form of a long, pedantic, self-centered commentary on a much shorter poem. It may parody his commentary on his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, in which the commentary was highly detailed and much longer than the poem. Both the poet and the commentator have been called self-parodies.
  • The short story "First Law" by Isaac Asimov is described by Asimov himself as a 'spoof' in The Complete Robot.

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