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interpellate [ɪnˈtɜːpɛˌleɪt] vb
(Law / Parliamentary Procedure) (tr) Parliamentary procedure (in European legislatures) to question (a member of the government) on a point of government policy, often interrupting the business of the day [from Latin interpellāre to disturb, from inter- + pellere to push] interpellation n interpellator n How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In addition, this public art work cleverly engaged the viewer by interpellating a certain kind of viewer, a strategy often used by Geers: If the work speaks to viewers, it is because the viewers already recognize something about themselves in the work. As her name itself suggests, MacGooden embodies Larsen's critique of a literary territory in which virtue is raised to the level of sexual ideology, interpellating the novel's late-nineteenth-century female readership through its inscription of female selfhood within the narrow parameters of a hypostasized goodness. As discussed above, Leon must negotiate the various hegemonic discourses interpellating him; there is no easy identification. |
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