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focalize /ˈfəʊk(ə)lʌɪz /(also focalise) verb [with object] technical1Focus (something), in particular:Its effects are importantly focalized through Breeze....- One of the biggest issues in bringing down the price has been working to focalize the laser using power efficiently.
- But now we are trying to focalise on our true identity.
1.1(In literary theory) provide an internal focus for (a text).The story is, to use a term developed by the theorists of narrative Mieke Bal and Gérard Genette, focalized through her....- Crucially, Crane chooses to focalize the departing train through hoboes: ‘three men, still hungry on the tracks.’
- By focalising a narrative entirely through a character's perspective, there is no apparent mediating presence between story and narration.
1.2 Medicine Confine (a disease or infection) to a particular site in the body. Derivativesfocalization /fəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...- But what she can do is force a shift in focalization - an even rarer feat in the context of this particular narrative.
- In Scarlet Sister Mary, shifts in focalization between omniscient and limited perspectives delve frequently into Mary's consciousness.
- The novel hides its subversive ideology behind Oshinica's focalization, masterfully using it to challenge the establishment.
Rhymesdelocalize, vocalise |