pastiches

Noun

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
   • 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
2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
   • This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

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