Definitions

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  • noun Miniature size; tendency towards miniature size.
  • noun Tendency towards detail.

Etymologies

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miniature +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider Anis Shivani 2010

  • Franzen's social realism can seem at times a bit like miniaturism, but I think he's pretty much mastered (as any great novelist must) the art (craft?) of inhabitating the brains of his characters.

    Microreview: Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' 2010

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? Anis Shivani 2010

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider Anis Shivani 2010

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider Anis Shivani 2010

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? Anis Shivani 2010

  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.

    Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider Anis Shivani 2010

  • In her affinity for miniaturism and her desire to make an art about her own past or her fears, she was also on the same track, although not moving at the same speed, as a number of artists associated with Dada or Surrealism, including Dalì, Max Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.

    Much Prettier 2009

  • The emphasis is on Webern's influence in America — serialism, pointillism, miniaturism.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • The emphasis is on Webern's influence in America — serialism, pointillism, miniaturism.

    Coming distractions Matthew Guerrieri 2006

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