Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving dislocation or dislocations: as, dislocatory movements of the earth's crust.
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The shared dislocatory effect which underpins all parallel/future/metaphysical narratives unifies all the disparate sub-genrefied forms into a single field.
Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006
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There are (other) negotiable conventions as to how that dislocatory effect is dealt with, which generate different forms -- just as the sonnet has its Spenserian or Shakespearean structures -- but underneath there is (only?) that
Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006
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This 59-line poem, appearing on page 120, is a stunningly surreal venture into dislocatory imagery and ideation:
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