to historicize

Examples

• All

• There was no real attempt to historicize the abstract and spartan scenography with concrete period details, though it did have serigraphs of a mid-sixteenth-century Tudor handkerchief found in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, even if they were not immediately apparent to the eye.

  Academic text (2017)

• Many filmmakers try to historicize their settings by using appropriate costumes and props from the period.

• Instead, to historicize came to mean to efface the boundary between an act of literature and an act of political power.

  Academic text (1998)

• The style itself demonstrates a historicizing impulse that serves the translation of authentic presence.

  Academic text (1999)

• The core of Moi's critique of poststructuralism is not of its historicizing aims, but rather that it fails to attain them.

  Academic text (2005)

• Everywhere Renaissance critics prided, and still pride, themselves on their efforts to historicize the works of the period, in keeping with Jameson's transhistorical dictum, "Always historicize!"

  Academic text (1998)

• As Titmarsh moves from Gibraltar to the even more historicized Greece, he indicts Britain's persistent romanticization of this landscape.

  Academic text (2016)

• In her documentary, she aimed to historicize the events of the 1960s by showcasing interviews with people who lived through that time.

Synonyms

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to archaize

vsto historicize

• Literature

9.9

To make something look old-fashioned

gives the appearance or style of a specific past historical period

How Historical

to reconstruct

33 3.9

to recreate

102 4.5

to historicize

• Specialized

8.1

to evoke

71 4.8

to allude

88 6.5

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology