Definitions:
Parody - An imitation of the style of a particular write, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Pastiche - An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
Within the texts, parody and pastiche are being discussed, linking them to postmodernism.
Jameson's definition of parody and pastiche:
- Jameson states that parody is found without a vocation, that it has lived but pastiche is taking over from parody.
- "Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language. But it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives."
Hutcheon's definition:
- Parody has 'introverted formalism' - bringing direct confrontation to the problem of relation of aesthetic to a world of defined meaning.
- Jameson stated that parody came with age - something that causes us to loose connection with the past.
Hutcheon's criticism of Jameson:
- "Jameson argues that is postmodernism 'parody finds itself without a vocation' replaced by pastiche, which he sees as more neutral or blank parody. But looking to both the aesthetic and historical past in postmodernist architecture is anything but what Jameson describes as pastiche, that is, 'the random cannibalisation of all the styles of the past, the plan of random stylistic allusion'. There is absolutely nothing random or 'without principle' in the parodic recall and re-examination of the past by architects like Charles Moore or Ricardo Bofill. To include irony and play is never necessarily to exclude seriousness and purpose in modernist art. To misunderstand this is to misunderstand the nature of much contemporary aesthetic production - even if it does make for neater theorising."
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