Where the figuration is less narrative and more cogitative, that streaming montage of icons is, of course, of less import. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Notes] Reference
… This figuration is not representational. From Wordnik.com. [Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
How ethical is it to exploit that figuration in this context?. From Wordnik.com. [On Profanity: 4] Reference
The question is the size and the scope and the figuration of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Bush May Face Difficulty in Pushing His Conservative Agenda - January 20, 2001] Reference
Derrida drops philosophemes into "a wider discourse of figuration.". From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
It situates the "discourse of figuration," in short, in a mythology. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
Titus Andronicus is significant for The Cenci 's figuration of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Ecotopia] Reference
She studied the details of the man, changing her con - figuration to match. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
I'm a great believer in figuration as the only way to get real form in painting. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
The modification of our idiom caused by the act of figuration may be subtler still. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
The war's devastation triggered a longing for order, a return to figuration and classical forms. From Wordnik.com. [Motherwell and Modern Life] Reference
"The harmless Faun," says Bulwer Lytton, "has been the figuration of the most implacable of fiends.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
He saw the figuration of Annadoah's tent, and within, reclining upon her couch, the form of Annadoah. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Shelley's dead body is the formal, fixed rendering of an infinitely redoubled strategy of figuration. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley's Pod People] Reference
The figure of figuration and of generation is the sun, introduced in the non-figure "the sun sows its rays.". From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
On its north flank was a figuration of rocks, the profile of an immense bearded man reclining across the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The inner monologue may be muted by focus on our perception of the actual figuration and/or on another component. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Notes] Reference
This is quite the opposite of what we are trying to establish: the figuration of "here" without location. close window. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
There's more to figuration than analogy, where articulation A, the vehicle, can be unpacked to figuration B, the tenor. From Wordnik.com. [Genius in a Bottle] Reference
The figuration now is if Constellation, ISS, and the shuttles all get the axe there will be so much free cash we can buy anything. From Wordnik.com. [Imagining News - NASA Watch] Reference
Estate of Philip Guston Philip Guston's reconversion to figuration was triggered by his despair during the Vietnam and Nixon years. From Wordnik.com. [An Artist's Drawings] Reference
And he, not she, never looks back at figuration, but turns out works that are increasingly spare, abstract and yet incredibly lyrical. From Wordnik.com. [Their Inspiring Relationship] Reference
Like a writer telling more than one story at a time, Bacon confirmed my own belief that figuration does not have to be one story, one narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Vickie Karp: Third Screen: Marshall Arisman on How to Look Around] Reference
During the 1960s, when Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism reigned, he was a leading pioneer in re-establishing metaphoric, post-abstract figuration. From Wordnik.com. [Murderers and Metaphors] Reference
It allows us to do so in spite and because of the radical limit it thus places upon our power of figuration, representation, knowledge, and thought. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics] Reference
With its furious production of pseudo-philosophical figuration and speculation, the debate might almost be regarded as an early modern science fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Copyright] Reference
With its figuration, and its audience participation, and its popular subject, Steinhilber admits the piece is unlike anything he's tried before -- almost. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Steinhilber retrospective: Escaping definitions] Reference
In both modes of artistic com - position, the spatial along with the temporal, rhythm is imposed by the recurrence of some distinctive kind of figuration. From Wordnik.com. [MOTIF] Reference
At their strongest moments, the shape of another critical discourse begins to emerge, and the critical analysis of the figuration gropes for its own context. From Wordnik.com. ['At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'] Reference
The undoing of the representational and iconic function of figuration by the play of the signifier does not suffice to bring about the disfiguration which The. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Reading, Begging, Paul de Man'] Reference
Chamber peddles a scrawled, hard-wrought form of figuration with a palette that leans toward the decrepit: think Alice Neel, if she was painting with a broken arm. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week] Reference
This essay's detailed foregrounding of figuration and metrics demonstrates that poetic language has resources available to it for encoding that are not available anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_] Reference
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