pastiche

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works. countable,uncountable
  3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge. countable,uncountable
    — This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
  4. A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
    — 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.

词形变化

pastiches plural pastiches present,singular,third-person pastiching participle,present pastiched participle,past pastiched past

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词源 1
Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.
词源 2
Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.
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