10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERALISATION»
Discover the use of
literalisation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
literalisation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Washing the Brain _ Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
8.4.3 Literalisation, reductionism and ideology At the beginning of chapter 1 I
introduced the notion of “literalisation of vehicles (sources)”, by which I meant the
literal use Oflexis or literal reference to a schema when the same lexis or schema
is ...
2
After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
Making things explicit I refer to as a practice of literalisation, that is, a mode of
laying out the coordinates or conventional points of reference of what is
otherwise taken for granted. One effect of literalisation is to realise that describing
a process ...
3
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial ...
The first is the literalisation (or defamiliarisation) of the accepted status of the
body as sign, in particular of the national body as woman/mother. The second is
figuration or transfiguration, the translation of such metaphors into an other, ...
4
Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing
What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation.
Else Mundal, Jonas Wellendorf, 2008
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Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance
How to take responsibility for the idea of reading suggested by the novel itself?
The problem at issue here might be the literalisation or dis-figuring of the figure—
in other words, the explanation of a culturally different literary text, or its location
in ...
6
Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
The literalisation of sitting here emphasises the unexpectedness and importance
of the fact that it is Jo Berry whom he is sitting beside. In the second occurrence (
line 562), the repeated literalisation is made still more striking by the additional ...
Graham Low, Alice Deignan, Lynne Cameron, 2010
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Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach
... generalised principles to context-bound descriptive frameworks. Empirical
evidence is presented of three types of shifting: vehicle re-deployment; vehicle
development, and vehicle literalisation, in which metaphor shifts into the real
world.
Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, Marilda do Couto Cavalcanti, 2008
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Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Those techniques of literalisation are integral to the work in other areas too.
Lucian returns several times in the passage just quoted to the language of '
airiness', the habit of 'up-in-the-air' thinking. The Greek adjective meteôros means
'in the ...
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Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
It is indeed `literalised' and like marriage in that it is written as a binding contract
between two persons, rather than, say, as a state of mystical knowledge as it is in
Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons on the Song of Songs.135 This literalisation, ...
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Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformation of Ideas ...
For the balance sheet of literalisation is negative. It was accompanied by severe
changes in the structure of communicating groups, and there are no unequivocal
signs that these changes were approved of or promoted by the many whom they
...
Harald Kleinschmidt, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERALISATION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
literalisation is used in the context of the following news items.
Why academics are interested in the male body in Poldark and …
Randall's sadistic desiring gaze upon, flogging, subjugation and branding of Jamie Fraser's body is a literalisation of the English violence ... «The Conversation UK, Jun 15»
Karl Ove Knausgaard's series takes boredom to a new level
After exhausting the subject of his life for fiction, the author stops existing, a literalisation of “the death of the author”, the irritating and puritanical ... «The Australian, Mar 15»
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in 19th-Century Britain …
Indeed, trains figure rather a lot in Hamilton's literalisation of late Romantic painting. Turner's sublime Rain, Steam and Speed of 1844, which ... «The Guardian, Jul 14»
Big games are often light on themes
... have perceived as Caucasian sitting on a throne, a cowering Asian man on his knees before him in an amazing literalisation of colonialism. «The Conversation, May 14»
Utopians and visionaries
... the above launched books are a literalisation of the artistic impulse to create fictive situations or adventures that represent reality in simplified, ... «The News on Sunday, Feb 14»
Viral video philosopher Jason Silva: "We're going to cure ageing"
When you think about technology, it has become the literalisation of the psychedelic dream of mind expansion. The dream of transcending our ... «New Statesman, Nov 13»
Alison Croggon: Neon Festival is the most important initiative in …
Perhaps at its heart, Story of O is an argument against the misogynistic literalisation of porn that characterises so much contemporary culture: ... «ABC Online, Jul 13»
Pattern recognition and the periodic table.
The disenchantments of modern science, the disintegration of our unities, the attempted literalisation of our myths and legends, all produce a ... «The Fortnightly Review, Mar 13»
A Liar's Autobiography – always look on the animated side of life
... is his own opponent, playing to a baying crowd before ripping himself open in a gory literalisation of self-destruction. The audience goes wild. «Hackney Citizen, Nov 12»
The Jews who take off their shoes for shul
... from which commandment is derived metaphorically and consider the wearing of tefillin to be an "over-literalisation" on the part of the rabbis. «Jewish Chronicle, Jun 11»
