literatize

Example Sentences

• "On the whole, the militia leaders were members of wealthy local families, many of them somewhat literatized, who seem to have been trying to hold on to their local power, ..."
• "Books function as our extemal memory devices, and with them the need to exercise our intemal memories dwindles; something which has been noticed in recently literatized Inuit culture."
• "Pragmatic factors favored this: better education to literacy; expansion of publishing; the propagation of reading rooms and libraries, and of the culture of coffe houses, which supplied a wide range of journals; the enormous increase of writing; and the appearance of book peddlers, who helped to literatize even rural areas."
• "As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life."
• "The attempt to "literatize" other disciplines is often made by those thinkers in them who have been most receptive and yet most threatened by the invasion of what is often called "continental" theory and by Marxism."
• "I would further suggest that by granting sight pre-eminence over sound and correlating the visual with discursive language, these influential theorists are attempting to literatize embodiment, whose physical manifestations are observed and analyzed through a visualist and scriptocentric theoretical lens that disregards and potentially disavows the sensually experienced non-visual materiality and non-discursive sonic/phonic performative power of vocality."