Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent.
- noun A pasticcio of incongruous parts; a hodgepodge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pasticcio .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
work ofart ,drama ,literature ,music , orarchitecture thatimitates the work of aprevious artist . - noun A
musical medley , typicallyquoting other works. - noun An
incongruous mixture ; ahodgepodge . - noun uncountable A
postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. - verb To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
- noun a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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All these characters, whom I love reading about, esp. in pastiche, must be part of this Secret History.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Ender's Game' vs. 'Crossovers 2' vs. 'The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard' 2010
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Even as artistic theory values repetition and familiarity in pastiche and other ways, law is not keeping up.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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What I usually say about pastiche is that I'm very impressed by people who can emulate other writers to a tee, because I find it difficult enough just to write like myself.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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A pastel color pastiche is offset by the presence of seemingly endless light-grade wooden construction/renovation.
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Media Watch: TCM played THREE versions of The Wizard of Oz over the holiday -- the 1910 tableaux with Bebe Daniels when she was a child, an odd racist pastiche from the mid-20's with Oliver Hardy -- featuring Dorothy as a purse-lipped flapper princess, plus MGM's classic from 1939.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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Block's Nero Wolfe pastiche is much better than the official posthumous Nero Wolfe novels written by Robert Goldborough, which are unreadable (and which should not be read so as not to destroy the wonderfulness of the Rex Stout originals).
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005
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This sort of humorous pastiche is common, and is rarely resented or resisted by the original artists.
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This sort of humorous pastiche is common, and is rarely resented or resisted by the original artists.
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The anthology includes I Love Paree, a whacky Heinlein pastiche that I co-wrote with the brilliant writer Michael Skeet (fittingly enough, we inaugurated the collaboration at Judith Merril's wake at the Bamboo Club), which has been out of print for a couple of years now.
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Having started in pastiche chic-lit style, Miranda’s finding a much deeper, darker and funnier vein to explore – she could hit the motherlode if she keeps at it.
tankexmortis commented on the word pastiche
Not just a great-sounding word, I love the genre too.
January 17, 2007
misterpolly commented on the word pastiche
Its Italian equivalent "pasticcio" is also a great sounder. It can be a mess/trouble, the musical composition and a dish made up of whatever is available (left-overs)
December 11, 2007
she commented on the word pastiche
It's strange seeing this word celebrated — unlike pasticcio, I've never seen pastiche as a happy synonym for parody, pasquinade, motley, medley, potpourri, etc., and WeirdNet's last definition is just dead wrong — pastiche as an adjective implies, to me, the highly derogatory "insipid, derivative, counterfeit.." — Pasticheur is a snooty term for a derivative artist or writer (The word screams "inferiority!"); it's a nasty accusation, not an innocuous appellation. Like the creative equivalent of calling someone a slut.
Of course, this is only my impression, and you'll use the word however you damn well please, but I hope this serves as at least a marginally useful description of what kind of picture the word may paint?
August 12, 2008
nahiku888 commented on the word pastiche
only heard this word in reference to films --- by a so called expert ( He was a prof at USC film school ) ...and when no one in the audience quite got the definition correct, he made a couple sarcastic remarks - needless to say THIS did not endear him to our small community which is faaarrrr from Hollywood.
June 22, 2009
1286343606 commented on the word pastiche
Growing up, my mother called a dinner of leftovers "hodge podge". I hate the sound of that. Hodge podge does not sound tasty. It sounds gross. My wife discovered pastiche, so when we have a dinner of miscellaneous leftovers, we have "pastiche". Mmmmm. Delish.
June 3, 2011
sionnach commented on the word pastiche
Personally, I agree with she/her on this one; pastiche has too many inescapable pejorative connotations for me ever to consider it a positive designation. Instead of hodge-podge, how about salmagundi? Or the ever-pleasing gallimaufry?
June 3, 2011