tropology
- noun
- /trəˈpɒlədʒi/
- Literature
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tropología
- One chapter in this book, "A Tropology of Realism in Hard Times," is a very intriguing and valuable reading of Dickens's novel.
- tropology of metamorphosis
Examples
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The professor gave a fascinating lecture on tropology, explaining how metaphors enhance literary meaning.
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Particularly in structuralist and poststructuralist literary theory, we find a stream of thinking that has appropriated the figurative puzzle of metamorphosis into a general study of tropology.
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34 These are, generally speaking, best approached through allegory and tropology, the two highest of Hugh's three levels of exegesis.
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Another theoretician whose arguments on the tropology of metamorphosis are closely related to Jakobson's study of the moving statue is de Man.
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The emphasis on the tropology of metamorphosis shifts from the question of metonymy and metaphor to that of personification.
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Thus, de Man proposes that selfhood is always produced by means of prosopopoeic tropology and may be understood only in terms of an ambivalent rhetoric.
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Various complex questions on tropology are thus posed in Anders's and Sokel's readings of Kafka's "Metamorphosis."
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The study of Kafka's short stories, however, presents yet another significant research tradition, one in which the tropology of literary metamorphosis has been problematized in quite different terms.
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Moreover, what makes Miller's work on Ovid noteworthy from our perspective is his conscious treatment of the tradition of metamorphosis stories in relation to tropology and the rhetorical self-definition of the subject.
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Strangely, despite their focus on the self-reflexive tropology of metamorphosis, none of these theorists seems to have noticed one of its most important and, indeed, most obvious tropological functions: the representation of textual revision.
Academic text (1996)
How Figurative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tropology comes from an old Greek word tropos meaning 'turn' and is related to the English word trope, which names a figure of speech like a 'metaphor'. So tropology is the study of these 'turns' in language, such as metaphors and similes.