pasticheur

And Ackroyd comes to vivid life as a pasticheur.

Carr's problem, indeed, any pasticheur's problem, is how to keep within the spirit of the original yet still find opportunities for invention.

A born pasticheur, Ms. Nelson is a whiz at evoking the styles of others.

(Translation: He is not a pasticheur.)

He combined the roles of cinephile and man of letters in a unique way, as well being a novelist, screenwriter, translator and pasticheur.

They show a technical skill which is almost disquieting, a skill which might lead him, in default of any overpowering imaginative purpose, to become a brilliant pasticheur.

Entire courses devoted to that froth called French Impressionism; whole seminars to a prolific pasticheur named Pablo Picasso, whose chief innovation lay in mining African art for modernist gold.

Pasolini defined himself as a "pasticheur" - someone who plucked themes, ideas and styles from a variety of sources; and his work (including his film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew") frequently served as a commentary of sorts on older stories and legends.

Byatt is full of both irony and playfulness, and also a brilliant pasticheur (of nineteenth-century poetry in 'Possession', especially) - apparently Hollinghurst is also keen on mimicking Georgian verse with snatches of his Brooke-esque poet's verse in this new novel.