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Pastiche

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, pastiche means: Writing that imitates or combines recognizable styles, often as homage rather than ridicule.

In Turkish: pastiş

How it is used

Use for recognizable stylistic imitation or combination; a comic or critical transformation of the model is not required.

Example sentences

  1. Her detective story is a pastiche of Victorian prose, complete with elaborate descriptions.

    The borrowed prose style gives a new story an older literary texture.

  2. The novel's pastiche combines diary entries with the language of old adventure books.

    Several recognizable forms are assembled within one work.

Common collocations

  • literary pastiche
  • a pastiche of styles
  • intertextualityThe way texts shape and depend on other texts, through quotation, allusion, parody, imitation or rewriting, so that meaning comes partly from these connections.
  • PostmodernismA movement in literature after the Second World War that plays with form and questions truth, often through irony, parody, mixing genres and fiction that comments on itself.

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