What is "pastiche"

Usage examples of "pastiche".

Breen summarizes how parodists and pastiche writers have treated EQ in his article on p.

Sherlock Holmes, unleashed such a plethora of pastiches that you could not swing a cat without hitting a lost Watsonian manuscript, a number of excellent works have appeared recently.

Little Becky gazed up at her Aunt Lily, fallen too shy to work on the first impression she had planned to make, a sort of Sarah Bernhardt and Sara Crewe pastiche, standing injured yet indomitable in the face of adversity.

He also collaborated with Adrian Conan Doyle on a pastiche, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.

Yet attempts by student radicals to base a social program on a pastiche of nineteenth-century Marxism and early twentieth-century Freudianism have revealed them to be as resolutely chained to the past and present as their elders.

Pastiche of this sort is a lot like dressing in drag: in both, it's a matter of piling up and juxtaposing stereotypical traits, thereby transforming them into eccentricities and quirks.

Images of the three he had killed pastiched his hemiconsciousness with his memory of firing a gravity wave into the zotl's lynk to Galgul.

One success leading to another, the character has been featured in motion pictures, comic books, cartoons, pastiches, television series, toys and role-playing games.

This was, however, exactly what was done with the Conan stories: not only were they presented following someone else’s reconstruction of the character’s “biography,” but pastiches of arguable quality (to say the least) were interpolated among Howard’s tales.

In other words, people lured to Howard’s Conan stories after encountering adaptations or pastiches simply found more of the same, not having detailed information to separate the wheat from the tares.

Down the centuries, many civilized writers like Ovid, Firdausi, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Spenser, and James Stephens have collected these tales, edited or rewritten them, and composed pastiches based upon them.

Peter Lovesey has denied that the Cribb stories are pastiches, but rather `Victorian police procedural novels'.

Now, with the paintings and statues either removed or replaced by mocking pastiches, and the mirrorways sealed, it had been transformed into an echoing, gloomy cavern, full of concealing shadows, their darkness increased by the occasional shafts of mote-filled light that escaped the sealing of the mirrorways to shine through the interlaced woodwork of the ceiling.

Leiber's correspondence with Lovecraft is interesting in that of all of Lovecraft's correspondents only Leiber seemed immune to the desire to begin banging out slavish pastiches of the mythos created by the elder writer.

By the '50s de Camp stories were appearing mostly in lower-level markets, and he was putting much of his effort into revising and pastiching the work of Robert E.