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literalization AmE

Or a literalisation of John Berger's theory of female objectification which, at the time of its publication in 1972 ("Men look at women.

But he may have confused emphasis with literalization when he decided actually to put Freud onstage as a character in the opera.

Christine Brooke-Rose describes her use of metaphor as a literalization (1976k:3).

Gillen called the game's literalization of linearity "appealing", expressing his disappointment that Pay did not attempt to market the game more.

I'm a goddamned literalization!

According to this definition, literalization is a metaphoric mapping of what Barthes calls an 'acratic' or specialized discourse onto an 'encratic'or universal one.

"Youngman" is an English literalization of the name of the company's founder, Pang Qingnian.

Somehow, all that dramatic thunder seems like a generous bonus, the literalization of everyone's moral crisis, the inevitable consequence of the intricacies of human behavior.

"The Hunt of Love: The Literalization of a Metaphor in Fuenteovejuna."

More than his directorial predecessors in Baltimore and Hartford, Mr. Wright has successfully moved the script away from literalization.

Keys' attempts to reprogram the dog become a "bold literalization of the race war", and as the film progresses Keys becomes obsessed with the idea that he can cure the dog.

For Fraser, "Untitled" was, she explained, "not a literalization of what is, in fact, a very old metaphor, that selling art is prostitution," a point that was made with pithy precision by Baudelaire.

Schizophrenic speech provides a metaphor for metaphor, and it is in this sense that its use in Out may be understood, not as a valorization of the psychotic condition but as a literalization of the figure.

His attack on Christianity amounts, furthermore, to a protest against the literalization of metaphor, and to the closed system, the closed-mindedness, that results from the privileging of the Christian "story" over all other possible stories, and the creation of a Western master narrative.

Mr. Silberling described the main plot point - the fact that the fiancé (Jake Gyllenhaal) is staying with his prospective in-laws and can't bring himself to leave - as "the literalization of emotions" that he and Rebecca's parents, Danna and Benson Schaeffer, experienced.

And the silly and enjoyable conceit in "Legend," originally subtitled and now dubbed into English, is that Fei-Hung actually has to get drunk to be any good at this specialized style of kung fu, literalization on the order of the Justice of "Poetic Justice" really being a poet.