literalisation

We're suspending our disbelief anyway; we know that this strangeness is all a conceit and therefore "could not have happened" (we can hardly ignore the clear literalisation of the figurative that the story is built around, that "dead car" metaphor of daily language), but we are playing the game of all fiction, strange or otherwise, pretending that it "could have happened".

Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

We're suspending our disbelief anyway; we know that this strangeness is all a conceit and therefore "could not have happened" (we can hardly ignore the clear literalisation of the figurative that the story is built around, that "dead car" metaphor of daily language), but we are playing the game of all fiction, strange or otherwise, pretending that it "could have happened".

Strange Fiction in the Marketplace Hal Duncan 2008

Trapezes and wire work are much on display and the recurring motiff of water is given a gigantic literalisation in the form of a stage width glass swimming pool.

Woyzeck 2005

They are fabulous at once in their simplicity, in their complicated construction and in their literalisation of an idea of equality of form.

California Literary Review 2009

Dancing is always about the death drive, about the libidinal disciplining of the body, about forcing the body into unnatural postures and shapes (when Jackson occasionally amazes after "Billie Jean", it is more likely to be because of his dancing than his singing - the impossible-looking anti-gravity of his literalisation of the gangster lean in the "Smooth Criminal" video for instance).

k-punk 2009

So maybe there’s something to the literalisation aspect there… heh

Testing the Weird 2010