| In his discussion of the Essay, then, de Man divides emotion from metaphor for the unexpected reason that emotion is figurative, while metaphor works toward literalization. |
| Her dilemma does not lead her to avoid or void metaphor through a radical literalization of her trauma of loss. |
| These works read as a self-reflexive literalization of the notion of the copy. |
| His infantile voice, androgynous manner, ever-whitening skin, and de-Africanized features and hair became a grotesque literalization of the crossover aesthetic. |
| But the work is also a provocative literalization of the Minimalists' sculptural turn to the horizontal, and a jocoserious gloss on Fried's theatricality. |
| This pallid story draws its ferocious tone less from the fury of willful people than from the literalization of a flip metaphor: the idea that the movie industry is incestuous. |
