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語源

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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈtiːʃ/
• 韻: -iːʃ

名詞

pastiche (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pastiches)

Botticelli's original on the left, pastiche on the right. (1)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
   • 2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism:

     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.
3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.

   This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.

   The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.

4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

参考

• cento
• collage

動詞

pastiche (三人称単数 現在形 pastiches, 現在分詞 pastiching, 過去形および過去分詞形 pastiched)

1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
   • 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

アナグラム

• capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite