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To exhibit or expose; to appear in the character of. When an item is represented, it is produced publicly. To represent an individual means to stand in his or her place, acting as his or her substitute or attorney. represent v. 1) to act as the agent for another. 2) to act as a client's attorney. 3) the state something as a fact, such as "I tell you this horse is only four years old." 4) to allege a fact in court, as "I represent to the court, that we will present six witnesses," "We represent that this is the final contract between the parties." (See: representation) TO REPRESENT. To exhibit; to expose before the eyes: to represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3. 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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In "Trauer" (Mourning) their manifold contradictions have been productively addressed by the gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, Thomas Trummer, who in his catalogue essay measures the representability of mourning and tragedy by way of such texts as Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," Barthes's Camera Lucida, and Derrida's "The Death of Roland Barthes," developing a phenomenology of loss. In other words, the poem asks us to behold the licit encounter of the two married lovers only inasmuch as the "purpura" or "vestis" reveals it, thereby enacting the "ouvert/couvert" dichotomy central to Montaigne's thought about the representability of sex through a "textum. 2) Such blending of forms highlights issues of representation and of the representability of Mexican-American experience in the novel form. |
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