Study Task 3

PARODY & PASTICHE

Having read each of the extracts once (Linda Hutcheon - The politics of postmodernism: Parody and history and Frederic Jameson - Postmodernism: Or the cultural logic of late capitalism) read the following sections closely:

Linda Hutcheon – p179-186

Frederic Jameson = p16-19

Highlight any references to Parody and/or pastiche and any other important details. You should aim to be able to answer the following questions:

What is being discussed in each text?

HUTCHEON

• Doesn't agree with Jameson
• Both talking about the same thing 
• You must understand the culture ands rules that create something before it can be altered. 
• Postmodernism is a good thing. 

JAMESON

• Postmodern architecture combines different styles in one.
• Everything we create is influenced by the past.
• We no longer have original ideas they have all steamed from something previously done.