memorializer

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me·mo·ri·al·ize

(mə-môr′ē-ə-līz′)

tr.v. me·mo·ri·al·ized, me·mo·ri·al·iz·ing, me·mo·ri·al·iz·es

1. To provide a memorial for; commemorate.

2. To present a memorial to; petition.

me·mo′ri·al·i·za′tion (-ə-lĭ-zā′shən) n.

me·mo′ri·al·iz′er n.

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Instead Jantil may have been praised for her role as a "memorializer" (Miller 2006: 21; Nelson & Alker 2008: 13-35), (35) and not necessarily understood only as "the poet who can create 'monument' out of 'words'" (Miller 2006: 21).

"NEXT UNTO THE GODS MY LIFE SHALL BE SPENT IN CONTEMPLATION OF HIM": MARGARET CAVENDISH'S DRAMATISED WIDOWHOOD IN BELL IN CAMPO (I&II)

G.]"--is left standing in the initials, keeping the question of the individual hovering in uncertainty, to perpetually pose the questions, who is the subject, and how is the memorializer performing her task.

Painting sand: Nelly Sachs and the Grabschrift

PBS has fallen into the role of cultural memorializer, the celebrator of moribund genres.