Literary notes about pastiche (AI summary)
The term "pastiche" in literature is used to describe works that imitate, reference, or reassemble existing styles and genres in a manner that can be either celebratory or disparaging. Some critics suggest that an author's effort may fall short, reducing innovation to nothing more than an archaic pastiche or a mere rehash of familiar forms [1][2][3]. In other contexts, however, a work is praised as a skilful pastiche that not only captures but also pays homage to literary traditions while engaging in playful social satire [4][5]. At times, the label is applied to pieces that mimic the form and tone of canonical texts—be it through deliberate borrowing or creative reworking of language—demonstrating that pastiche can function both as a tribute to and a critique of established artistic conventions [6][7].
- The quality of Spenser's imagination defeats what may have been his original intention to produce a pastiche here.
— from The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser - They have rarely succeeded in getting very close to them without mere archaic pastiche.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury - Rob’t Wilkinson’, no date, is of no value, being, at best, a bad pastiche from some very poor engraving.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn - The song was an amusing but irreverent pastiche of social satire.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards - But the book, at least to myself, seems an extremely elaborate and skilful pastiche .
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang - [Pg 90] PASTICHE Now the days are all gone over Of our singing, love by lover, Days of summer‑coloured seas Blown adrift through beam and breeze.
— from Poems & Ballads (Second Series)Swinburne's Poems Volume III by Algernon Charles Swinburne - I believe that no more perfect example of pastiche exists in the language.
— from Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
