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Milton the iconoclast warned against illustration as a kind of transgression, which literalises ideas by trapping them in sinful bodies.
2) Finally, we will argue that the text literalises its own collusion with the structure that it purports to resist and negates its own utopian operation in a recuperative gesture which instantiates the paradox of resistance and recuperation that seems to beset American oppositional politics even today.
44) Blue Velvet, therefore, simply literalises the Oedipal fantasy that is already present in Hamlet.
 
 
 
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