focalize
verbEtymology From focal + -ize.
1
To focus, or to adjust a focus.
2
To sharpen an image by focusing.
3
To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
4
Human sciences, Linguistics, Narratology, Sciences To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
- The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:
- Derived terms
- focalization, focalizer, unfocalized