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explicate verb clarify, define, describe, detail, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, explain, explicare, expound, give a detailed explanation, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, interpretari, make clear, make explicit, make plain, render clear, reveal, shed light upon, simplify, spell out, throw light upon, translate, unfold, unfold the meaning of, unfold the sense of, unriddle, untangle See also: clarify, comment, construe, depict, elucidate, enlighten, exemplify, explain, exposit, expound, interpret How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Over half the book is taken up with explications of twentieth-century writers on cities, a lot on Kevin Lynch, maybe too little on Melvin Webber, but excellent on Central Place Theory. The second part of Dawahare's book presents lengthy explications of texts by Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. What follows is a combination: (1) useful treatments of Platonic and other sources including a nuanced assessment of the proportion and relation of Platonism to Christianity in Spenser; (2) a gallimaufry of sensitive explications of selected passages linked by Spenser's repetition of a word or phrase such as "night" and "day," explications some of which could stand alone as brief essays. |
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