literalizing

Morrison’s technique might be characterized as literalizing stock language.

The most overrated novel ever 2009

Morrison’s technique might be characterized as literalizing stock language.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

I hadn't been aware of that incident, and I was immediately attracted by the idea of juxtaposing poetic insight and political insight; literalizing and exploring Shelley's idea that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Frost repeatedly joked through the years that he wanted to run for the Senate); asking what happens when poetry tries to speak to power.

Brian Hall - An interview with author 2010

Note 92: Carruthers, Book of Memory, 166: "The monastic custom of reading during meals is described in some texts as an explicit literalizing of the metaphor of consuming a book as one consumes food." back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

I think that myth is the only way to understand truth in Scripture,, if one wants to to follow Scripture at all...as it is not a literalizing of the Kingdom, of defining sin other than what is legal, raising children, realting to you spouse, etc...

Quote of the Day (John Walton) James F. McGrath 2009

Yet the experience of watching this intentionally incongruous coda is excruciating, and to no defensible effect beyond a shrug of the shoulders and an acknowledgement that literalizing the metaphysical is not Fassbinder's forte.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, fests, etc, 4/2. 2007

Morris responds to all this openheartedly, and without literalizing any of it.

A Major New Work From Mark Morris 2009

Morris responds to all this openheartedly, and without literalizing any of it.

A Major New Work From Mark Morris 2009

"The City & The City starts with the literalization of a metaphor, but it doesn't end there, because ultimately it is not literalizing one metaphor but is, rather, literalizing an idea that is rich with metaphorical potential."

The City and the City 2009

This is exactly what I meant by using "metphors" and then literalizing them in application.

Sparring with Jesus James F. McGrath 2008