Anagraphy

Quick meaning: Anagraphy is a noun meaning The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.

Meaning

The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.

Example Sentences

A particular style emerges, one that might be called anagraphy, or a rhetoric of graphic traits that bind the physical character of the printed letters to the psychological conditions of the narratives.

W.S. Hart's middle name is Shakespeare, starts are versified as the seasons or as literal heavenly bodies and actors are explicitly identified as symbols. But there are also more proximate causes that underlie anagraphy.

In this way the subject is not something that is to be discovered, fresh and new, from the unknown, but is an effect that surges out of a flat, printed surface of unconscious memory, since sujet, following the prevailing logic of anagraphy (typographical anamorphosis), can be bent into j'ai su, or "I have known."

I propose to show, however, that despite their strong literary connections both lyrics have a realist or factual hinterland, so that by working our way back from the lyrical tranfiguration to the underlying realities we can discover new elements about Laura's anagraphy and possible identity while also dating the two poems.

Word Forms

• anagraphies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anagraph, graphism, writing, symbol, ideograph, charactery.

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