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Significatory

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Sig`nif´i`ca`to`ry
a.1.Significant.


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Lieske's reference to the significatory possibilities of lighting, and the abstract look of the equipment itself, here combine to suggest a complex if inconclusive reinvestigation of the medium and its meanings.
I will consider the question alongside Watson's discussion of the transformative capacity of poetry, since this idea seems to give poetic license to the poet to reassign meaning to a different significatory order.
14) Kathleen Wall, in her excellent essay on "The Remains of the Day and Its Challenges to the Theories of Unreliable Narration", points to the "verbal patterns or tics" in Stevens's discourse as one of the "most accessible signals of Stevens's unreliability" (Wall, 1994:23), but she does not take the deconstructive turn (as I have here) that the bracketing of terms serves as a punctuative shorthand for significatory deferral.
 
 
 
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