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Article: Pastiche.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2007
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Pastiche by Richard Dyer. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 221 pp., illus. Hardcover: $110.00 and Paperback: $30.95.
Pastiche is a highly original reevaluation of what else?--pastiche, a form of imitation and quotation that has, during the past thirty years, often provoked critical contempt. In this study, Richard Dyer turns the tables on dismissive critics, identifying their condemnations as part of a long-standing tradition of patriarchal discomfort with intimacy and affect. Pastiche, in Dyer's lexicon, balances thinking and feeling by simultaneously positioning the audience both emotionally inside and analytically outside of its structure. Dyer suggests ...