metaquotidian

comparative more metaquotidian · superlative most metaquotidian

1. Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.

   But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian.

   2009, Robert D. Denham, The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990, →ISBN, page 65

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   The theatre of a spiritual gesture — in memory of Helmut Kajzar — an exposition of a personal concept of acting; a history of co-operation with Kajzar; ..allowing myself to make so drastic confessions that I intended to be a metaphysical actor ... means that I've confirmed my organic relationship with the metaquotidian theatre".

   1991, Notatnik teatralny - Volumes 1-4, page 221

   We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss.

   1997, Charles Wright, Black Zodiac

   What appears to be second nature is made strange, as his cartographies of Locust Avenue and its environs turn the suburban “countryside” into a zone of dematerialized space, a metaquotidian map.

   2015, DC Turner, “Made Things”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the US South