| 词组 | pastiche |
| 释义 | pastiche Pastiche is a word growing in popularity with reviewers. It is used in three ways: it is used of a work—it could be music, art, literature, or architecture—that is a deliberate imitation of the style of another person or of another time; it is used of a work that is made up of selections as bits and pieces of other works; and it is used of something that is a mixture of different, often disparate, things. Here we have the first use: • But his style, an overblown pastiche of 17th century prose, unsuited to the subject matter, spoils the account —Ted Morgan, Saturday Rev., August 1979 This sense can be used attributively: • Part of the book seems meant as pastiche Waugh, but most of it is just strainedly facetious —Times Literary Supp., 7 July 1966 Here is the second use: • The good doctor is a Neil Simon pastiche of Chekov stories, with a narrator who is Chekov himself — Judy Barbour, Nation Rev. (Melbourne), 1 May 1975 The third use is more broadly applied: • A pleasant pastiche of political science and storytelling —Playboy, April 1984 • ... the grand pastiche of nationalities that make up Australia —Edwards Park, Smithsonian, October 1982 Bryson 1984 worries that pastiche may be misused to mean "parody." Since the word in its first two senses may be used of something that is intended as parody, it is easy to see how the two meanings might converge. In the following two examples it is possible for the reader to think, at least, of parody: • ... a tiny gem, a perfect pastiche of the musicals of the twenties —Judith Crist, New York, 10 June 1972 • ... written in a style that was almost a pastiche of George Moore —Times Literary Supp., 23 Apr. 1971 Pastiche and parody are sometimes distinguished: • ... literate pastiche and respectful avoidance of parody were no substitute for Fleming's innate virtues —Philip Larkin, Required Writing, 1983 The third sense can be used pejoratively: • ... a pastiche of undirected elements that never forms a convincing whole —Iva Hellman, People, 21 July 1986 The commentators might better be more concerned about vague use: • ... even a dog who has been cruelly subjected to brain surgery is not entitled to speak like a pastiche of King Lear's monologues -^-Charles Nicol, Saturday Rev., 4 Mar. 1978 |
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