(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
and enthusiastically yielding to the festive, Dionysian vision of ultimate carnival (or penultimate carnival) exegesis
There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.
The new Paramount comedy-western is worth any number of Bergman’s exegetical nightmares.
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Just as Kraus’s densely argued texts deplore the mechanization of verse, so Franzen’s unstructured exegeses attempt to summon a similar abhorrence of the digitization of the novel.
It is presented by the author in full exegetical mode
require a full-scale exegesis of a text
any formal textual exegesis at all, whether it be Russian formalist, New Critical, phenomenologist, or structuralist
But such a reconstruction from fragmentary sources, no matter how exegetically rigorous, should not be construed as the “true Marx.”
muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work
He was such a firm believer that he spent the last years of his life writing an exegesis of the Bible – the one sacred text that was really available to him
His early exegete Lotte Eisner called her book on German Expressionist cinema The Haunted Screen, but it’s only Murnau’s films that seem truly haunted, haunted from within
this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis
his own prose, built of solid blocks of exegesis and description
a recent exegete regards Lenininism as a psychopathological phenomenon
On the Jewish Question of 1843, which contains the famous exegesis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The exegetical artifice may not be enough