a literary or musical work in which the style of an author is imitated for comic or satirical effect
Parody is common in literature as a form of mocking imitation, and was employed by many major writers – Sterne, Fielding, Dickens, etc – often to develop a new genre based on upturning something previous. In ‘postmodern’ culture it has a more serious role as a mocking or self-doubting style, expressing the ironic, over-quoted, unreal nature of artistic forms and institutions — Professor Malcolm Bradbury
a feeble or ridiculous imitation
parodic /pəʹrodik/ adj
parodist noun
[via Latin from Greek parōidia, from para-1 + aidein to sing]