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1954 P. W. Wheelwright Burning Fountain vii. 123 The imagination operates..creatively..by fusing and or recontextualizing old ideas in such a way as to generate new ones.

1979 Drama Rev. 23 23 The use of colloquial Balinese recontextualizes the present in the potential space thus far dominated by the languages of the past.

1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 July (Spectrum section) 78 Any biographer has..to write against Wordsworth's own account of himself—to supplement and recontextualise the poet's own self-representation.

2003 i-D Dec. 130/1 Working class kids taking on traditionally upper class sports and outdoorsy brands and recontextualising them.

1962 P. Wheelwright Metaphor & Reality v. 97 Eliot's recontextualization of the Christian symbol of the Dove by momentarily identifying it with a bombing plane.

2005 Time Out (Nexis) 19 Oct. 10 This fascinating reconstruction of Nazi Britain, 1944, achieves..striking effects through the deadpan recontextualisation of London icons.

1960 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 28 340/1 The strength of Sleep of Prisoners is its recontextualizing of basic human conflicts.

2007 Cape Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. 13 It will present a re-contextualising of Indian rhythms and melodies, mixing them with a jazz-rock fusion and funk.

1980 MLN 95 1128 Tradition made tantalizing by a desire for the context that surrounded the now recontextualized object.

2005 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Jan. (Weekend section) d1 She combines photographs of boys from prison with recontextualized images from Russian Christian Orthodox iconography.