Pastiche is an artistic work that imitates the style of other works or combines elements from different sources, also known as a potpourri. It derives from an Italian term for a layered dish.
Pastiche is a work, whether literary, artistic, or musical, that imitates the style of other works or is composed of selections from various sources. The term comes from the Italian 'pasticcio,' originally referring to a type of layered macaroni pie.
Back | pastiche \pass-TEESH\ |
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Front | noun A literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style or is made up of selections from different works; potpourri. [It all began with macaroni. Our word "pastiche" is from French, but the French word was in turn borrowed from Italian, where the word is "pasticcio." "Pasticcio" is what the Italians called a kind of "macaroni pie" (from the word "pasta"). English-speakers familiar with this multilayered dish had begun to apply the name to various sorts of potpourris or hodgepodges (musical, literary, or otherwise) by the 18th century. For over a hundred years we were happy with "pasticcio," until we discovered the French word "pastiche" sometime in the latter part of the 1800s. Although we still occasionally use "pasticcio" in its extended meaning, "pastiche" is now much more common.] "The majority's reading ... unduly emphasizes the concurring opinion by two justices, and it engrafts onto the plurality and concurring opinions selected statements from the dissent. Then, to hold this pastiche together, it overrules ... well-established Massachusetts law." - Excerpt from concurring opinion (Selya, J.) in Redgrave v. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc., 1988. |
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