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Trope (literature)
About: Trope (literature) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8928 citations.
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this article, the intentional structure of the Romantic image is discussed and the image of Rousseau in the Poetry of Holderlin and Wordsworth and Holderlin is discussed.
Abstract: Preface1. Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image2. The Image of Rousseau in the Poetry of Holderlin3. Wordsworth and Holderlin4. Autobiography As De-Facement5. Wordsworth and the Victorians6. Shelley Disfigured7. Symbolic Landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats8. Image and Emblem in Yeats9. Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric10. Aesthetic Formalization: Kleist's Uber das MarionettentheaterNotesBibliography for Essay 8Notes on PermissionsIndex
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TL;DR: In contemporary critical terminology "ekphrasis" has come to be firmly associated with the subject of this journal: word and image as mentioned in this paper, and the examples that spring to mind are likely to include the Homeric Shield of Achilles and its many literary imitations, the rhetorical and allegorical descriptions of paintings written by later Greek prose authors, like Lucian and the Elder and Younger Philostratos or, from more recent periods of Western literary history, John Keats' meditation on his tantalisingly still and silent Grecian Urn.
Abstract: In contemporary critical terminology ‘ekphrasis’ has come to be firmly associated with the subject of this journal: word and image. Mention ‘ekphrasis’ to an art historian, literary critic or classicist, and the examples that spring to mind are likely to include the Homeric Shield of Achilles and its many literary imitations, the rhetorical and allegorical descriptions of paintings written by later Greek prose authors, like Lucian and the Elder and Younger Philostratos or, from more recent periods of Western literary history, John Keats' meditation on his tantalisingly still and silent Grecian Urn. This ‘genre’, or ‘trope’, of ekphrasis evokes a network of interlocking questions and interests, from the positivist pursuit of lost monuments described in ancient and medieval ekphrasis to the poststructuralist fascination with a textual fragment which declares itself to be pure artifice, the representation of representation.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative content assessment suggests that rhetorical figures were prevalent throughout the period and that more layering of multiple figures and less explanation of figures over time were observed in U.S. magazines.
Abstract: Rhetorical advertising style consists of the method or manner by which ad content is expressed; an example is the use of rhetorical figures such as metaphor or rhyme. Two studies of rhetorical style in U.S. magazine advertisements from 1954 to 1999 are reported. A qualitative content assessment suggests that rhetorical figures were prevalent throughout the period. In addition, the content assessment suggests more layering of multiple figures and less explanation of figures over time. The content analysis supports these trends and clarifies that one kind of figure—a destabilization trope that includes pun, metaphor, and irony—increased in incidence. Several possible explanations for these observed trends are considered, with a focus on how changes in rhetorical style may reflect the mutual adaptation of consumer and advertiser to changes in the advertising environment over this time period.
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TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which the trope of prosthesis has been used in recent theory to understand human-technology relationships, including disability, factory labor practices, mass production, and marketing.
Abstract: This article critically examines the ways in which the trope of prosthesis has been used in recent theory to understand human-technology relationships. Analyzing the trope from a number of angles, including disability, factory labor practices, mass production, and marketing, the author scrutinizes ways in which technologies are simultaneously wounding and enabling in ways for which the prosthesis trope cannot account.
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