Pastiche – a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
Parody – an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Bricolage – Bricolage is a technique or creative mode, where works are constructed from various materials available or on hand, and is often seen as a characteristic of postmodern art practice.
Intertextuality – can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
Referential –
Surface and style over substance and content –
Metanarrative – theory that tries to give a totalizing, comprehensive account to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena based upon the appeal to universal truth or universal values.
Hyperreality – something that give a representation of characters that aren’t socially normal or acceptable. eg disney world. exaggerated otherness
Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – an image or representation of someone or something
Consumerist Society – a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things.
