Some reviewers have pointed out that this premise is a kind of literalization of a metaphor or series of metaphors that will feel appropriate and even familiar to most city dwellers, and that's true, but I think there's more to it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
MC: What about the literalization of metaphor appeals to you?. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Phillips at Infinity Plus] Reference
It results in literalization from those that are morally simplistic. From Wordnik.com. [Opposing Fundamentalist Asantaists] Reference
We embraced easily defined goals and crystal-clear communication (Ronald Reagan was president, presiding over the literalization of America). From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?] Reference
The original book was a literalization of childhood alienation say that four times fast, and turning it into a 100-minute film required the creation of much context and content. From Wordnik.com. ["Hurt Locker" and "Where The Wild Things Are" (2009)] Reference
Slighted by Agamemnon, Achilles enacts the exile that he feels -- partly as a way of punishing the king, but also as a literalization of Agamemnon's refusal to grant him his respect, his regard. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Anger and Byron] Reference
I mean, that's the other part of the story is that these physical fights are just sort of, you know, literalization of these metaphorical emotional things that we all go through in a relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Love Is A (Video) Game In 'Scott Pilgrim' Battles] Reference
"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.". From Wordnik.com. [The City and the City] Reference
If anything superstitions and the literalization of the sacrifice seemed to govern the socio/religio polity of that era. - much as it does today - According to SA much of the Veda is filled with symbols and metaphor which specifically resisted a general reading. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
There's a difference between the allegorical or symbolic literalization within the work of, for instance, Kafka and Borges, and the absolute, take-it-for-what-it-is literalization of most science fiction, which is one reason people who can read Kafka with no problem get stuck when trying to read genre SF. From Wordnik.com. [Faith in Metaphor] Reference
With Shelley's drawing in English on those interchangeable speech sounds "O" and "Oh," his ode momentarily arrests that move into literalization, into discourse, or pretends to, in a cross-lexical alphabetic suspension — even in the very fashioning of its first signifying transit; and even in the equivocation of its monosyllabic letter sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
The space was the literalization of everything about. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Science fiction may be literalization of metaphor, it may be open to metaphorical, symbolic and even allegorical readings, but what's real within the story is real within the story, or there's no there there. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I'm tempted to pluck just this - "genuinely elemental, embarrassingly sincere" - and move on, but Taxi Driver's portrait of loner alienation, so his second punctures the self-aggrandizing narcissism and self-conscious social psychodrama of right down to the lyrical light-struck footage and perverse literalization of the. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
This concept is fine as far as it goes, but the best SF makes it so simplistic as to be nearly meaningless, and The City & The City is the sort of book that does just that -- the basic premise is wonderful purely for its own sake and for the sake of the care with which it is conceived and explored, but the metaphors it suggests for urban life, for certain historical and political realities, etc. are just as important to what makes the novel work so well -- 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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
I come back to this notion of literalization, which I’m trying to work through—it comes from Marjorie Perloff and has been a site of interrogation recently by Jennifer Ashton. From Wordnik.com. [Vanessa Place, Round One] Reference
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