Whereas "the occasion and
contexture of speech" is a source of dismay for almost all the other poets we have discussed, for Harrison the perception that meaning is not fixed but contingent is a liberating one, suggesting that speech can be a force for change.
Looking at criticism as part of the poet's
contexture, the environment of composition, he writes: "Criticism which is, on many occasions, the faculty and instrument of judgment is on other occasions, possibly more numerous, part of the body of circumstance out of which and against which the single voice of creative intelligence must be made articulate.
Hence, any actual grouping of linguistic units binds them into a superior unit: combination and
contexture are two faces of the same operation; the development of a discourse may take place along two different semantic lines: one topic may lead to another either through their similarity (the metaphoric way) or through their contiguity (the metonymic way) ("Two Aspects" 90).
Le decor aide beaucoup la camera car la Casbah, fabuleux repaire des terroristes rebelles, permet par sa
contexture compliquee, ses escaliers montant a l'assaut du ciel, ses maisons aux fenetres rebondies, ses angles fermes et ses places exigues toute une serie d'images exceptionnelies ou les volumes eclatent au meme rythme que les explosions des bombes terroristes.
(6) Though we do not have many drafts of various letters or any whole "books" of letters to one correspondent that Dickinson (or anyone else) saved, the
contexture of each body of letters to one recipient repeatedly demonstrates her patient cultivation of each recipient as an ideal reader of the prose, poems, and epigrams she chose to send.
In addition, the confluence of past and present and concern about the future, memories of past events, and spatial indeterminacy, all characteristically associated in some way with the concept of death (Hallam and Hockey 47-100), are integral to the postmodern
contexture of Para quemar la memoria.
The
Contexture of Feminism: Marie Cardinal and Multicultural Literacy.
Geoffrey Hill, in his essays in The Enemy's Country: Words,
Contexture, and Other Circumstances of Language, quotes Dryden's criticism of Ovid, which was that "as his Verse came easily, he wanted [lacked] the toyl of Application to amend it" (6).
Wang (2000) in an experimental research studied the relationship between students' artistic activities and utilization of multimedia in education, deducing that such facilities play an important play in students' cultural
contexture and their activities.
By yoking together these two large nouns "Shakespeare" and "Ecology," the second of which, as Smith implies, might be said already to have swallowed the proper name "Shakespeare," each of these essays contributes to an unfolding of "Shakespeare" as a
contexture or knot of agents or actors: plays, poems, actors, playhouses, animal, plant, and mineral remains, audiences, and readers.
The tumor milieu is an extremely complex and dynamic
contexture comprised of many cell types, ECM components, and secreted factors.
Figure S6: a graphical summary of the immune
contexture in MpM variants.
In effect, the editors apply the above notions to the particular
contexture of economic underdevelopment.
