Focalize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Focalize is a verb meaning To focus, or to adjust a focus.
Meaning
To focus, or to adjust a focus.
More Meanings
- To sharpen an image by focusing.
- To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
- (narratology) To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
Example Sentences
The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.
Word Forms
- focalizes
- focalizing
- focalized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include focus, refocus, concentrate, orient, accommodate, fixate.
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