architexture
/ˈɑɹkɪˌtɛkst͡ʃəɹ/
architexture noun: a metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
Noun (1)
architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)
- A metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
- Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.1995, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Identities, page 210
- Moving through Richter's artwork, one is actually “transported” into that haptic “architexture” of recollection in which a filmic-architectural bond is pictured, figured as a map.2018, Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, page 10
Noun (2)
architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)
- Eggcorn of architecture.
Examples of architexture in a sentence
- Understood in this way, cinema becomes an inhabitable space, a mode of dwelling, and a kind of 'living architexture', in the words of Giuliana Bruno.2021, Susan Larson, Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film:
- Indeed, these narratives are the product of not mythological thinking but causal thinking, conceived as archives of social events as explanatory mechanisms also known as architextures.2022, Olivier J. Tchouaffe, African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity, page 37:
Forms of architexture
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Origin of architexture
From archi- + texture.
Questions about architexture
- What does architexture mean?
- Architexture means a metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
- How do you use architexture in a sentence?
- Understood in this way, cinema becomes an inhabitable space, a mode of dwelling, and a kind of 'living architexture', in the words of Giuliana Bruno.
- What part of speech is architexture?
- Architexture is a noun.
- How do you pronounce architexture?
- Architexture is pronounced /ˈɑɹkɪˌtɛkst͡ʃəɹ/.
- What is the plural of architexture?
- The plural of architexture is architextures.
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