Formal markers in pastiche texts appear as traces of older forms

Evidence

My sense is, however, that even the few formal markers we have been able to isolate — the lakeshore, the building blocks, the “sense of an ending” — are deceptive; they are now no longer features or elements of a form but signs and traces of older forms. We must remember that those older forms are still included within the bits and pieces, the bricolated material, of this text: Beethoven’s sonata is but one component of this bricolage, like a broken pipe retrieved and inserted in a sculpture or a torn piece of newspaper pasted onto a canvas. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 230

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how pastiche works at the formal level: quoted forms become bricolage components rather than living structural features.
• XREF: connects to: Formal sedimentation names genres as layered deposits of past ideology — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3243; Friedrich read modern poetry’s abnormality against older exemplary forms — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2230; Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679