Literatize

On the whole, the militia leaders were members of wealthy local families, many of them somewhat literatized, who seem to have been trying to hold on to their local power, ...

Books function as our extemal memory devices, and with them the need to exercise our intemal memories dwindles; something which has been noticed in recently literatized Inuit culture.

Pragmatic factors favored this: better education to literacy; expansion of publishing; the propagation of reading rooms and libraries, and of the culture of coffe houses, which supplied a wide range of journals; the enormous increase of writing; and the appearance of book peddlers, who helped to literatize even rural areas.

As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life.

The attempt to "literatize" other disciplines is often made by those thinkers in them who have been most receptive and yet most threatened by the invasion of what is often called "continental" theory and by Marxism.

I would further suggest that by granting sight pre-eminence over sound and correlating the visual with discursive language, these influential theorists are attempting to literatize embodiment, whose physical manifestations are observed and analyzed through a visualist and scriptocentric theoretical lens that disregards and potentially disavows the sensually experienced non-visual materiality and non-discursive sonic/phonic performative power of vocality.

Self-conscious, saddled with primerous blurbs and introductory matter, it is so sophisticated, so scrupulous in crediting even the supplier who manufactures the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award tokens (sic), that it resembles some kind of grotesque attempt to literatize a corporate statement.

Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized.