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A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist. quotations examples
He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
A musical medley, typically quoting other works. examples
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge. examples
(uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. examples
third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched
To create or compose in a mixture of styles. quotations examples
That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.
2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times