anagraphy

English

Noun

anagraphy (plural anagraphies)

1. The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
   • 1985, Romance Studies: A Journal of the University of Wales:

     I propose to show, however, that despite their strong literary connections both lyrics have a realist or factual hinterland, so that by working our way back from the lyrical tranfiguration to the underlying realities we can discover new elements about Laura's anagraphy and possible identity while also dating the two poems.

   • 1992, Michael Giordano, Studies on Béroalde de Verville, page 92:

     In this way the subject is not something that is to be discovered, fresh and new, from the unknown, but is an effect that surges out of a flat, printed surface of unconscious memory, since sujet, following the prevailing logic of anagraphy (typographical anamorphosis), can be bent into j'ai su, or "I have known."

   • 1993, John D. Lyons, Mary B. McKinley, Critical tales, page 67:

     A particular style emerges, one that might be called anagraphy, or a rhetoric of graphic traits that bind the physical character of the printed letters to the psychological conditions of the narratives.

   • 2014, Barry King, Taking Fame to Market: On the Pre-History and Post-History of Hollywood Stardom, →ISBN:

     W.S. Hart's middle name is Shakespeare, starts are versified as the seasons or as literal heavenly bodies and actors are explicitly identified as symbols. But there are also more proximate causes that underlie anagraphy.