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Literalism

noun

The doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature.

A disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense.

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"Literalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... varieties,[FN433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. He therefore omitted the greater part of the verse as tedious and, through the loss of measure and rhyme, "generally intolerable to the reader." He proved his position by the bald literalism of the passages which he rendered in truly prosaic prose and succeeded in changing the facies and presentment of the work. For the Shi'r, like the Saj'a, is not introduced arbitrarily; and its unequal distribution throughout The Nights may be accounted ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... useless and some mischievous debate has accumulated. The criticism which assumes that only one discourse on the subject was spoken by Jesus, and that consequently two reports of it differing from each other, cannot be both correct, is impertinent and trifling. It is a pedantic literalism contrary to experience and to common sense. It rests upon the assumption that a public Teacher who taught the common people daily, on the margin of the lake and in private dwellings, in the Temple at Jerusalem and ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

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