What is "parodistic"

Usage examples of "parodistic".

As already mentioned, this subplot provides a parodistic answer to attacks made on Dostoevsky in the past, and particularly a tit-for-tat riposte to Saltykov-Shchedrin.

Stepan Trofimovich is depicted against the background of a brilliantly parodistic re-creation of Russian culture from the 1830s up to the point at which the novel begins in 1869-1870.

The expressivity of this cross-purpose speaking is rooted in a painful, parodistic contrast with real dialogue, which it removes into the Utopian.

This was only the beginning of an increasingly fierce exchange between these two major figures which, a year later, would culminate in a brilliant burst of parodistic dialogue skits on both sides.

He is, in short, conceived as a parodistic persona, whose life exemplifies the tragic-comic impasses resulting from the effects of such influences on the Russian national psyche.

Even Rabelais, who played with the Promethean myth of a usurping man capable of scaling Olympus, nevertheless ended his wise book with a parodistic portrayal of the mystery of human apotheosis in the guise of a descent into a wine cave.

As he goes about his methodical preparations, reconnoitering the pitifully inadequate accommodations of his shabby hotel, Ludvik is intensely conscious of the parodistic quality of all his moves and gestures.

Don Juans are haunted by the pathos of imitation and the consciousness of living a parodistic derivative of a once charismatic identity.