inversiveness

Noun

inversiveness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being inversive.
   • Correlatively, “the Bottom,” which serves as Sula’s vernacular setting, becomes a field where specifically Afro-American women’s places—Eva Peace’s and Helene Wright’s houses, Edna Finch’s Mellow House, and Irene’s Palace of Cosmetology—offer an energetic figuration of patterns of purity and...1991, Houston A[lfred] Baker, Jr., “Theoretical Returns”, in Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing (Black Literature and Culture), Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago...
   • Then there is a formalistic explanation to the effect that the masque has to be truncated to allow the play to continue as a play. Yet this explanation […] ignores the deliberate inversiveness of the moment – the way in which Prospero’s ‘beating mind’ and ‘distempered’ visage represent a resurgence...2000, John Gillies, “The Figure of the New World in The Tempest”, in Peter Hulme, William H. Sherman, editors, “The Tempest” and Its Travels, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press...

   Synonyms:

   inversivity