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verbivocovisual

verbivocovisual adjective: composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.

Adjective

verbivocovisual (not comparable)

  1. Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.
    • In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against. This assessment, directed specifically at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow in February 1914, indicates the formalists' unwillingness to acknowledge the many poetic and...2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68
    • Alicia Genovese details very well the definition of avant-garde Brazilian concretist poetry of the 1960s. She did this through a Joycean neologism by which poetry was verbivocovisual in a synthesis of materials with which the poem operates: the verb (the uses of language), the sound (including the...2016, Martins, Laura M, “Per-verse Latin American Women Poets”, in Rodríguez, Ileana, Szurmuk, Mónica, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, Cambridge University Press...

Origin of verbivocovisual

Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.

Questions about verbivocovisual

What does verbivocovisual mean?
Verbivocovisual means composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.
What part of speech is verbivocovisual?
Verbivocovisual is an adjective.

Words near verbivocovisual in the dictionary

  1. verbigerative
  2. verbile
  3. verbiles
  4. verbing
  5. Verbitsky
  6. verbivocovisual
  7. verbivore
  8. verbivores
  9. verbivorous
  10. verbize
  11. verbized

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