literalism

noun2

1. •
   Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.

   • Elsewhere, the liturgiologists were said to have "disembowelled the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible" and produced in its place "the bland literalisms of Series 3 and the ASB[.]" — 1985
2. •
   The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

   • The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy. — 2015