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Literalization

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Lit`er`al`i`za´tion    (lĭt`ẽr`al`ĭ`zā´shŭn)
n.1.The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.


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Fundamentally, the waterfall's literalization of Fountain's central motif is not as resonant as it is decorative: a special effect less integral to the video than forced upon it.
For as Heng notes, "what after all is cannibalism but a hideously somatic literalization of the language of military conquest" (31), and the discursive difficulty in dealing with the history of actual Crusader cannibalism thus mirrors the larger trauma of Latin colonialism in the East.
As Carol Siegel argues, Fevvers is "a parodic literalization of Apollinaire's admiring description of Sade's Juliette, "a figure of whom minds have as yet no conception, who is arising out of mankind, who shall have wings and who shall renew the world" (12).
 
 
 
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