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- noun A minor movement in
British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a kind ofsurrealism in whichfamiliar things are described inunfamiliar ways.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Raine's best work, including the wonderfully novelistic History: the Home Movie, has always depended less upon his 'Martianism' I mean: upon a notional super-ingenuity of poetic simile than upon his ability to make imagery vital via precision and concision and vividness.
Craig Raine, Heartbreak (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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Raine's best work, including the wonderfully novelistic History: the Home Movie, has always depended less upon his 'Martianism' I mean: upon a notional super-ingenuity of poetic simile than upon his ability to make imagery vital via precision and concision and vividness.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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I understand that you are doing this to make us Martians feel as though we are among friends, and to demonstrate your absolute lack of Martianophobia or your committed anti-Martianism.
Archive 2009-02-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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I understand that you are doing this to make us Martians feel as though we are among friends, and to demonstrate your absolute lack of Martianophobia or your committed anti-Martianism.
Advanced Interviewing; or, My Favorite Martian Tenured Radical 2009
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We Martians are used to being in the minority, but it makes us impatient to have other people remind us of it all the time -- in the name of pro-Martianism, no less.
Advanced Interviewing; or, My Favorite Martian Tenured Radical 2009
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We Martians are used to being in the minority, but it makes us impatient to have other people remind us of it all the time -- in the name of pro-Martianism, no less.
Archive 2009-02-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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If you're in an "Earth" relationship, then your bi-Martianism is probably irrelevant, unless you're in an open relationship.
Advanced Interviewing; or, My Favorite Martian Tenured Radical 2009
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Mermanism "is clever it's about as accurate as" Martianism to Mermanism ".
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