thematics
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- noun
- /θiˈmætɪks/
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temas
- In an essay on Enright's short fiction, Elke D'Hoker follows its evolution from the postmodernism-inflected feminism of the early 1990s volume, The Portable Virgin, to the more comprehensive thematics of Taking Pictures.
Examples
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And since what a text narrates and what it refrains from narrating are aspects of its thematics, the interrelationship between theme, narration, and focalization cannot be ignored.
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Aspiring Jamesians exploring the thematics of homosocial desire need to pay no attention to Wayne Booth or Lawrence Holland.
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Referring to both Enright's thematics and her approach, these labels have been found productive by more recent readers, who extend them to her entire fiction.
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Having shifted from allegory to history, the poem then breaks with the prevailing thematics.
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Milkman is the focal point of the novel's thematics of enmeshment.
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The thematics of particularity and universality is central to the social and aesthetic thought of Theodor Adorno.
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In her exploration of how cultural myths position women in language, Margaret Homans shows how traditional thematics of gender identify women with the literal level of narrative, which is then labeled feminine.
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Herrera responds to this thematics by unfolding a new, reassuring map of a mercantile poetics.
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The thematics of friendship and betrayal are central to the novel's plot.
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In her lecture, the professor discussed the thematics of power and resistance in various works of art.
Synonyms
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A subject that people discuss, write about, or study
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Main idea in a piece of writing, art, or talk
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The main topic a talk, book, or picture is about
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A theme or idea that appears again and again in stories, paintings and music
The main idea of a talk, text, or piece of music
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Etymology
Thematics comes from the Greek word thema, which means 'a topic' and shares its root with the everyday word theme, so thematics can also mean the set of themes or topics you find in a story, film, or discussion.