Jameson says in Postmodernism, 'pastiche is to be sharply distinguished from the more readily received idea of parody', meaning there is a difference between the two, which he then goes on to explain.
Jameson defines pastiche on page 17 when he says: "Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language."
Hutcheon's defines parody when she says: "The paradox of postmodernist parody is that it is not essential depthless, trivial kitsch, as Eagleton and Jameson both believe, but rather that it can and does lead to a vision of interconnectedness. "Illuminating itself, the artwork simultaneously casts light on the workings of aesthetic conceptualisation and on art's sociological situation."
Hutcheon criticises Jameson when she says: "It is true, however, that it does not offer what Jameson desires - "genuine historicity," that is, in his terms, "our social, historical and existential present and the past as 'referent'" as "ultimate objects," But its deliberate refusal to do so is not a naive one: what postmodernism does is to contest the very possibility of there ever being "ultimate objects."
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