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A Dictionary of Marketing (4 ed.)
... An advertising term, where competitors’ posters deliberately appear next to one another. See also advertising...
juxtaposition Reference library
Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... is the noun, juxtapose the corresponding verb. Although you may position a thing, you don’t juxtaposition two things. Juxtapose is the correct verb form—e.g.: “The intended irony of Luther’s skewed morality juxtapositioned [read juxtaposed ] against the President’s lack of morality is not particularly subtle or original.” “It Takes a Sensitive Thief,” Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), 21 Feb. 1997 , at D3. Likewise, the participial adjective is juxtaposed , not juxtapositioned —e.g.: “And Martha [Stewart], well, let’s check her...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.)
... Relation of sequence between adjacent units. Hence especially where a construction is realized by adjacency alone: thus in many languages the role of a possessive is marked by juxtaposition (schematically ‘Peter book’ or ‘book Peter’) without an inflection etc. on either. Also available for a relation in which no specific construction is posited: thus successive sentences, if taken to be the largest unit of grammar, are then, from a grammarian’s viewpoint, merely...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... [Latin juxta ‘next’ + French poser ‘to place’] See also associative meaning ; bricolage ; collocation ; context ; contextual meaning ; contiguity ; metonymy . 1. The act of positioning things next to each other, especially for comparison or contrast ( see also co-presence ). Alternatively, an instance of this or the state of being so positioned. In advertising , juxtaposition is commonly used to associate a product with an attractive endorser or setting ( see meaning transfer ), but it is also employed for contrast in the...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... placing close together. XVII. — F., f. L. juxtā ( cf. JOUST ). So juxtapose XIX. See POSE , POSITION...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
... is a noun, not a verb. Although one may position a thing, one may not juxtaposition two things. Juxtapose is the correct verb form—e.g.: “The intended irony of Luther 's skewed morality juxtapositioned [read juxtaposed ] against the President's lack of morality is not particularly subtle or original” ( Bloomington Pantagraph ). See nouns as verbs...
juxtaposition
The Two Noble Kinsmen Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...with the ritual elements of drama. It coincided, too, with a Freudian interest in the representation of sexuality , and in recent years the Jailer’s Daughter’s ‘green-sickness’ and the controversial therapy applied to it have attracted a good deal of attention, as has the juxtaposition between the kinsmen’s homosocial rivalry and the near-lesbianism of Emilia’s passionate championing of female friendship. Stage history: The play reappeared after the Restoration as Davenant ’s cheerful adaptation The Rivals ( 1664 ), its action transferred to a harmless...
Christian-Muslim Democracy Reference library
Dimasangcay A. Pundato
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...from their Lord; we make no difference between one another of them; and we bow to God (in Islam). Certainly more research and exchange of views between Christian and Muslim Democrats are in order. Experiments on the juxtaposition of the democratic underpinnings of the two religions are essential. And such experiments are best effected not only in the quiet of the library but in actual maneuvering in the political arena. Thus, the formation of the United Muslim Democrats of the Philippines...
Medicine Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...is a state of mind, wholly unnoticed, as far as I know, by any Physical or Metaphysical Writer hitherto, & which yet is necessary to the explanation of some of the most important phaenomena of Sleep & Disease / it is a transmutation of the succession of Time into the juxtaposition of space by which the smallest Impulses, if quickly & regularly recurrent, aggregate themselves—& attain a kind of visual magnitude with a correspondent Intensity of general Feeling.—The simplest Illustration would be the circle of Fire made by whirling round a live...
All’s Well That Ends Well Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...even the clown Lavatch is a bitter and unhappy cynic), the play is most remarkable for its irony, holding us at a reflective distance from its driven and unconfiding heroine and its caddish hero alike. Shakespeare multiplies the story’s ironies and parallelisms by his pointed juxtaposition of the gulling of Paroles (who believes himself to be committing treason when he is merely destroying his credit with his comrades) with the bed-trick used against Bertram (who believes himself to be committing adultery when he is really condemning himself to his arranged...
The Comedy of Errors Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Brooks drew attention to the play’s interest in authority, relating its discussion of marriage to The Taming of the Shrew , while his successors have pursued the play’s allusions to St Paul on the same topic, often reflecting at the same time on the play’s canny thematic juxtaposition of three phenomena which confound the notion of the single, self-determining individual, namely birth, marriage, and twinship. Stage history: Apart from the 1594 performance at Gray’s Inn, only one other performance of The Comedy of Errors is recorded during Shakespeare’s...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...influenced by Goethe and Schlegel . From then until the late 20th century much writing about the play was dominated by the question of Hamlet’s character, his sanity or otherwise, and why he delays. A. C. Bradley influentially found the core of the play’s power in its juxtaposition of the scope of human thought with the limitations of mortality: other scholars continued to worry at a number of more local questions which the play deliberately leaves unresolved, such as the extent of Gertrude’s guilt, the nature of the Danish succession, and the precise...
Exploration Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...over sexual relations with Tahitians that followed publications such as John *Hawkesworth 's An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ( 1773 ), the engraving could only have been read as a juxtaposition of a patriotic mission with the prospect, if not the actuality, of sexual and commercial corruption. So far from inaugurating the improvement of savages, the voyagers' introduction of prostitution, and eager traffic in supplies, specimens, and baubles, exacerbated the supposed...
Literary Theory Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...without reference to the past, German literature divides itself from a ‘lifetime of inheritance and tradition’. It is this which underwrites an association of German literature with America and, in turn, with the age of revolution. De Quincey's deft, if rather cavalier, juxtaposition of aesthetics with questions of subjectivity and politics is characteristic of literary theory in our period. Before we can turn to these matters, however, his account of the new German literature brings us to ‘the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant ’, identified by ...
Liberation Theology: Europe Reference library
Luise Schottroff and John Rogerson
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...it aims to make liberation theology invisible in one's own context in order to avoid raising social questions. In the following outline of a liberation theology reading of the Bible two steps will be taken: taking key passages from the New Testament I shall place in juxta-position the outlines of traditional interpretation which I must always call the predominant one, and a liberation theology exposition from my perspective. I shall simply sketch the liberation theology interpretation without referring to particular references in order to make clear...
