literalization

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literalization

(ˌlɪtərəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) or

literalisation

the act of making literal or interpreting literally

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Nonsense literature frequently makes use of the literalisation of abstractions, as well as set phrases and metaphors to generate a comic effect.

It's a wonderful night for eyebrows

It is the shifts between these different registers of image and rhetoric, and the determining role of our own mobility in their literalisation, that the spectator's movement in the gallery enacts.

Ravishing Maggie: thatcher thirty years on

Perhaps it is that the completeness of this song is not friendly to complementarity, but it seems more likely that the director, Anton Corbijn's conception of the theatrical is too unmoving--it is a conception, a frame--and his understanding of Gothic literalisation is without the ironic awareness that in The Bad Seeds' oeuvre becomes transcendence.

'Now, who will be the witness/when you're all too healed to see?': the sad demise of Nick Cave

The last two centuries have witnessed an increasing literalisation of one of the dominant metaphors which guided the development of early modern science.

'Woman-Made Women': Mobilisations of nature in feminist accounts of cosmetic surgery

There is a shift here in the understanding of inscription from an abstract discursive construct of power/knowledge, to the literalisation of inscription on the body.