Pastiche

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–noun 

1. a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources. 

2. an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge. (雜燴菜)





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pastiche (n.) 

 

has three current meanings: 



(1) a work of literary, musical, or visual art made up of pieces and echoes of other such works—a kind of scrapbook or quilt (被褥) of recognizable bits; 



(2) an imitation, caricature, or parody of another artistic work; and 



(3) as an extension of the first sense, a hodgepodge, a mixture of this and that, a collection without order. 



This last meaning tends to undo the force of the first two, and it appears to be getting more and more use in Standard English. Today, if you wish to use either of the first two senses, you’ll do well to make context indicate which of them you intend, especially since the third sense is pejorative.





　

There are comedies of discomfort, and then there's Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's scalding follow-up to The Squid and the Whale. An immersion in sibling malice and simmering resentment, with one of the most infuriating characters in recent movies holding us under, 



Margot tramples the commandment  (一誡) that only the pure of heart and noble of deed are worth a viewer's scrutiny. Hard as it may be to imagine a comedy that inflicts [all the psychic torment] of Cries and Whispers, Baumbach has pulled off a more psychologically acute—and funnier—version of the Bergman pastiches that Woody Allen attempted 30 years ago, with a jumpy, nerve-rattling rhythm all his own. 





see caricature incongruous



segue rendition  

coda penultimate

schmaltz serenade aria crescendo

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