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In \"Literally: How to Speak like an Absolute Knave,\" Stephen Hequembourg notes that many famous authors have used literally not to mean \"actually\" but rather to intensify the effect of figurative language. For corroboration, he cites the lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, who points out that this \"misuse\" of literally appears in the work of Jane Austen, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sheidlower wants to release the term literally from the English prescriptivists; Hequembourg wants to examine the metaphoric pattern he terms \"perverse literalism,\" through which authors ask us \"what it means to understand everyday figures of speech in a more than metaphoric sense\".
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