Pronunciation key
( ĕk-splē-kä-syÔN də tĕkst′ )
ex•pli•ca•tion de texte
n. [pl. explications de texte]
[Fr. explication explanation + de of + texte text].
A method employed to provide detailed analytical literary criticism in which a reading of a particular text is provided and expounds on its linguistic, compositional and expressive parts and aspects are reviewed by a synthesizing exposition with relation to each other and the whole work.
This method provides a detailed analyses of the...
ex post facto
Pronunciation key
( eks pōst fak′tō )
ex post fac•to
adj.
[Med. L. ex postfacto from the thing or what is done afterward].
Made after something. Done after something, but having retroactive effects
Formulated and enacted and functions retroactively. Ex post facto law.
A law which is retroactive and makes an act a crime, that was not criminal under prior law when the act was actually committed. To increase the penalty for a crime that has already been committed or altering the rules of...
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