I think what fascinates me about this era is the sheer constructedness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bit of Fluff: Late Baroque Fashions] Reference

Radcliffe teaches readers to be disappointed in the tidy ending by revealing its constructedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper] Reference

Perhaps he fears that the constructedness of these Eastern representations will show through once the glossy surface has worn off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore] Reference

The artificial constructedness of the project allowed for situations in which the models could both perform and be caught off guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be There (or be square)] Reference

It also means recognizing the constructedness of strict gender boundaries and a questioning of the dichotomous structuring of contemporary society.    From Wordnik.com.  [What does feminism mean for you? « Gender Across Borders] Reference

One's position on the constructedness of homosexuality or of its natural reality will derive at least in part from which history one wants to write.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality] Reference

Despite the editing and the constructedness that we know a film can have, it is this symbol of reality that I think is what makes people uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Feminists on Childhood and Sexuality in the Art of Amy Jenkins « Gender Across Borders] Reference

The MOO, like Blake's Milton, can offer the realization of the very constructedness of time and space as grounded in the formal capacity of the imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  ['If the acts have been perform'd let the Bard himself witness': William Blake's Milton and MOO space] Reference

His mule braying, Thoven approaches the door and begins to examine it carefully, talking aloud to the others as he confirms, indeed, the largeness and well-constructedness of the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Session 1: Every New Beginning « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference

Sometimes writers manage to raise themselves to an awareness of the social constructedness of aesthetic conventions and conventional discourse and compel their readers to rise to such an awareness as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art and Culture] Reference

Foucauldians, showing the historical constructedness of our understanding of homosexuality will show the emptiness of those categories as a basis for claiming knowledge about people one classifies in that category.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality] Reference

Before looking at these specific arguments, however, we should note that the historical constructedness of sexuality is in one sense not a conclusion from the historical evidence but a necessary presupposition to doing the history of sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality] Reference

In the case of the Frankenstein monster, one could even add that his theatrical scars and prostheses and his awkward mechanical movements offer a displaced figure for the utter constructedness of cinematic visionas though the record of angled shots, cutting, editing, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream] Reference

So by the time that my students turn their attention to the "Urn," they have had a good deal of practice in thinking of a poem as simultaneously a performable sequence of speech acts creating what Vendler calls an "emotional arc" and a visual artifact composed of lines, stanzas, and other markers of the poem's constructedness as a text to be seen all at once as well as heard sequentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn] Reference

But it's important to notice that our critical apparatus regarding copyright and authorship adopts the very language we have been studying: just as novelists like Fielding and Richardson claimed to be doing something new, something original, we have claimed first, that late eighteenth-century authorship (our form of authorship) is unprecedented and secondly that our particular understanding of it (its newness, its constructedness) is unprecedented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angry Owner] Reference

Realism, a form of writing which does not bring attention to its own artifice, its own constructedness '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wet Asphalt] Reference

The absence of much hard data, or even reference to such data as exists, only serves to highlight the constructedness of the narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larvatus Prodeo] Reference

Through these, she advances some familiar preoccupations, ostensibly the constructedness of language, its ephemeral materiality, and the slippage of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com]

They were meant to both defend against the idea that poc owned homophobia and to highlight the constructedness of statistics used to make ideological points about race.    From Wordnik.com.  [WOC PhD] Reference

On a somewhat more theoretical note, it's also pleasing to see attention being paid to the work of Karl Polanyi and his work back in the 1940s on the constructedness of markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larvatus Prodeo] Reference

Iwasaki's statement calls attention to the social constructedness of pan-ethnicity - panethnic identities are self-conscious products of political choice and actions, not of inherited phenotypes, bloodlines, or cultural traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

Among these are the constructedness of experience and its relation to understanding, the relation between individual and cultural understandings, the multiplicity of understandings both interpersonal and intrapersonal, and the implications of these things for both art and intellectual activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

Jonathan's answers to his own question are surely part of the explanation of why, where "cultural study" is concerned, the novel has gotten "to be so important," but I would add that another reason this brand of inquiry goes on "in near total ignorance of poetry" is that encountering a poem requires an initial acknowledgment of and response to the constructedness of literary works, the formal and ultimately wholly artificial quality that makes them literary to begin with and that renders poetry less than congenial to the bull-in-a-chinashop approach to "content" favored by cultural studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry] Reference

Despite the editing and the constructedness that we know a film can have, it is this symbol of reality that I think is what makes people uncomfortable… it’s real bodies in real time and it’s in movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Feminists on Childhood and Sexuality in the Art of Amy Jenkins « Gender Across Borders] Reference