historicize , also: historicise BrE

She is a sculptor with vivid Renaissance features and no plans to historicize them.

If Germans historicize the crime, Jews are prone to mythologize it.

Whatever the measure, until now there has never been any serious movement to study it, canonize it, historicize it.

Its goal was not to aestheticize history but to historicize art, and thereby subject its interpretation to moral scrutiny.

I can't historicize myself.

Frazier does the opposite of writers such as Melville or Woolf, who historicize the language by shaking its roots.

The journal seeks to historicize these diasporic movements, analyze their relationality across fields of social relations, subjectivity and identity.

If Mr. Mayer proposes to reappraise and historicize, he insists on doing so with a sense of moral and professional responsibility.

What he calls his "mantra" summarizes his efforts to balance formalism and historical criticism: "Always the text; always historicize."

What Christie's is doing is trying to historicize everything made before 1970 while at the same time trying to encourage new art to be sold at auction."

Although not a historian, Baker has often aimed to historicize anthropological theories and critically analyze them, particularly with regard to race and African American studies.

He recognized that the Chinese style was not a "transportable piece of technique," and that Epic theatre sought to historicize and address social and political issues.

When Fredric Jameson exhorts the reader, 'Always historicize!' one recalls Helen Gardner's assertion, 'All art, including contemporary art, is historical.'

Ms. Spitz often treats gender differences, which are central to picture books, as if they were arbitrarily "designated" by cultural history, even though she otherwise spurns "scholars who want to historicize everything."

His method was not to deny such notions, but to historicize them, examining what in the supposedly necessary may be contingent, and demonstrating the relationships between knowledge and politics, power and knowledge.

His assignment, were I to accept it, was to write a history of the American novels and short stories published too recently for me to have studied them in college: to historicize the fiction of my adulthood.

I wanted to write the history of ordinary people-to historicize them, put them into the social structures and long-term trends that shaped their lives, and at the same time resurrect what they said and did.

"Already," he said, "people are starting to fictionalize, historicize, politicize and psychoanalyze his work, and already they are arriving at absurd conclusions because they're not sufficiently familiar with the facts of the artist's life."

In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said: 'OK, we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion, but surely not incest or bestiality?'

Jameson marked his full-fledged commitment to Hegelian-Marxist philosophy with the publication of The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, the opening slogan of which is "always historicize" (1981).

Marxists often imply that Marxism simply involves the introduction of a historical framework -'always historicize!'- but this assumption can only be made, according to Althusser, because of'the confusion that surrounds the concept of history ':

This exercise led him to historicize some of the traditions mentioned in the text, as well as link the appearance of the Painted Grey Ware with the arrival of the Aryans in upper Ganges basin areas.

While some tenets of hacker ethic were described in other texts like 'Computer Lib/Dream Machines' (1974) by Theodor Nelson, Levy appears to have been the first to document and historicize both the philosophy and the founders of the philosophy.

This move is to historicize everything, even the laws of nature, and to challenge our acting as if time were real but not too real-we act as if it is somewhat real otherwise there would be no causal relations, but not so real that laws change.

Social constructionists suggest that knowledge is not only a social product, but a product of a specifically situated society; various accounts of reality depend on place and time - in order to study knowledge as a social product, one has to historicize and contextualize the given description of reality.