For this study task we were required to write a definition of parody/pastiche based on the two texts (using at least one quote from each of the texts) we analysed during the seminar...
Frederic Jameson- Pastiche
'We are condemned ti seek history by way of our own pop images and simulacra of that history, which itself remains forever out of reach'
Jameson refers to Pastiche in regards to Postmodernism as 'Blank Parody', essentially parody without the context with 'no connection to history, which gets turned into a series of styles, superseded genres and simulacra'. Jameson mentions how postmodernist architecture 'randomly and without principle' cannibalises the architectural styles of the past, combining them into an overstimulating ensemble. We approach the past through stylistic connotation, conveying 'pastness' through the glossy qualities of image. This, Jameson argues, displaces real history in favour of the popular images of the past. By cannibalising the past through Pastiche, we strip away its context, viewing the past through a distorted lens and therefore displace real history. 'A statue with blind eyeballs'.
Hutcheon- Parody
To Hutcheon, parody is 'art marked primarily by an internalised investigation of the nature, the limits and possibilities of the language of discourse in art.' Parody is essentially postmodernist deconstruction of a piece of work from a critical perspective, inherently political in nature . Paradoxically Hutcheon also argues that Postmodernism is inherently parodic in nature, though not necessarily 'depthless trivial, kitsch, as Eagleton and Jameson both believe, but rather it can and does lead to a vision of interconnectedness...'
No comments:
Post a Comment