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Trope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In literature, a trope is a familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type of literature. Trope theory in metaphysics is a flavor of nominalism. Tropes can also be plots or events, such as the science fiction trope of an alien invasion that is deterred at the last minute. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trope   (701 words)

Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Trope of Arranged Marriage It appears that my "psychosis" regarding the question of arranged marriage is not only a personal problem, but rather that the trope of arranged marriage haunts the creative output of a large cross-section of Indian American youth. For instance, in the last decade or so, a spate of Indian American cultural products (literature, films, music) have interrogated the diasporic identities of "1.5" and second-generation Indian Americans. Finally, through an examination of the Indian American film, ABCD (American Born Confused Desi), I will analyze the process by which second-generation Indian Americans generate self-definitions that often remain bounded by this representational matrix, and in so doing often replicate the fixation on arranged marriage as an overarching signifier of diasporic identity. repositories.cdlib.org /cmcs/mrg/gsc/Shah   (622 words)

GER 392: Gibt es österreichische Literatur? -- Syllabus This course will use the question: "Is there Austrian Literature?," as a guidepost for explorations about national literary canons, their formation, and their politics, within the framework of the nature and constitution of today's literary studies. By taking on central strategies for thinking about literary history and testing what might be called "Austrian literature" against their assumptions, we will not only introduce canonical germanophone Austrian authors, but also take on methodological questions about literary studies and about the politics of Germanistik, especially as strained across common national, ethnic, and religious lines. "Austrian literature" is largely a post-1945 concept, created to no small degree by Germanists of Austro-Hungarian origin in US exile. www.utexas.edu /courses/arens/austlit/austlitdesc.html   (653 words)

Rowley.txt Too much revolutionary literature has been of the Protekult model; such Man Loves Tractor literature, as it has been commonly called, strips bare the knowledge-base of aesthetics in favor of dogmatic tropes. Michael Rowley Forgetting Sexy, Workshopping Beautiful: Accessibility Within Revolutionary Literature and Theory The left, always represented in revolutionary literature through an underdog trope, constantly struggles behind capital. In revolutionary literature, performativity must take the form of the aesthetic equivalent of approximate and relative truth. web.english.ufl.edu /mrg/Abstracts/Rowley.txt   (343 words)

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770 Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one’s own interest. Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770 books.cambridge.org /0521810051.htm   (343 words)

Untitled Document His current projects are an edited book on literary societies of Republican China (with Michel Hockx), a book on museums and the representation of history in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the PRC, and a study of returning home (hui guxiang) as a trope in modern Chinese literature. He is also the editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, manager of the MCLC Resource Center, and moderator of the MCLC LIST (an email discussion list devoted to modern Chinese cultural studies). He is now an associate professor at The Ohio State University, where he has taught modern Chinese literature and film since 1988. www.fas.harvard.edu /~ealc/people/denton.html   (156 words)

Mormon Stereotypes in Popular Fiction the trope of the Mormon conspiracy, the trope of the blood-atonement murder, and the trope of the hostage maiden. Each is used to describe the Mormons of the past in Westerns and historical romances, the Mormons of the present in detective fiction and true-crime literature, and the Mormons of the future in science-fiction novels and other forms of speculative fiction. Mormons have become stock characters in several major genres of fiction because they are easy to associate with certain values, perceptions, and behaviors. www.adherents.com /lit/austin_lds_poplit.html   (6395 words)

Review 3 That is, in the alterity of the work of literature--an alterity that Robbins associates with the workings of trope as well as the question of style--does not literature, too, become an interruptive force, preventing the ego’s or the reader’s return to him or herself and thus inaugurating an ethical movement in Levinas’s sense? To be sure, it is admitted that the alterity of a poem is not the same as the alterity of the other person (though Robbins is not explicit on the differences), but the question remains whether the work of art or literature might not also give access to the ethical as Levinas understands it. The face is the principal figure in Levinas’s early works of the absolute alterity of the other person but, as Levinas employs the term, it does not refer in the ordinary way to the assemblage of nose, brows, eyes, mouth, and so on by which we recognize one another. www.brynmawr.edu /bmrcl/Fall2001/Robbins.html   (6395 words)

Mormon Stereotypes in Popular Fiction the trope of the Mormon conspiracy, the trope of the blood-atonement murder, and the trope of the hostage maiden. Each is used to describe the Mormons of the past in Westerns and historical romances, the Mormons of the present in detective fiction and true-crime literature, and the Mormons of the future in science-fiction novels and other forms of speculative fiction. Most Mormon critics, however, now operate under the assumption that the nineteenth-century outpouring of anti-Mormon novels was something unique to that period--something that could not happen again because of the great strides the Church has made towards the American mainstream. www.adherents.com /lit/austin_lds_poplit.html   (6395 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox Apart from Socrates, the rhetoricians thought of irony, in Quintilian’s terms, as either "trope," a brief figure of speech embedded in a straightforward context, or "schema," an entire speech or case presented in language and a tone of voice that conflict with the true situation. In the early eighteenth century, the omnipresence of French and English satiric literature brought the idea of irony, so called, out of the classroom into the intellectual marketplace; during the intervening twenty centuries it lived in, or on the edge of, rhetorical theory, the two chief fountains of which were Cicero and Quintilian. Irony has continued to appear infields of observation outside literature. www.autodidactproject.org /other/ironydhi.html   (4832 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox Apart from Socrates, the rhetoricians thought of irony, in Quintilian’s terms, as either "trope," a brief figure of speech embedded in a straightforward context, or "schema," an entire speech or case presented in language and a tone of voice that conflict with the true situation. Irony has continued to appear infields of observation outside literature. In the early eighteenth century, the omnipresence of French and English satiric literature brought the idea of irony, so called, out of the classroom into the intellectual marketplace; during the intervening twenty centuries it lived in, or on the edge of, rhetorical theory, the two chief fountains of which were Cicero and Quintilian. www.autodidactproject.org /other/ironydhi.html   (4832 words)

Literary Theory: Bibliography Gates, Henry Louis [ 1988 ], The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g) [in, The Signifying Monkey] (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988) (subjects=AfricanAmerican criticism; AfricanAmerican literature; Trope; Rhetoric; Signifier/Signified; Oral tradition; ;.) [ Gates,H:SignifyingMonkeyLanguageSignifyin ] (genre=m). Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754 [ 1755 ], Preface [in, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] (Printed for A. Millar, London, 1755) (subjects=Veracity; Travel literature; ; ; ; ; ;.) [ Fielding,H:Preface ] (genre=m). Crabbe [in, The Spirit of the Age] (Printed for Henry Colburn, London, 1825) (subjects=Romanticism; Campbell Thomas; Crabbe George; Imagery; Pastoral; Mimesis; ;.) [ Hazlitt,W:MrCampbellMrCrabbe ] (genre=m). efts.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/LITTH/LitTh.bib.html   (4832 words)

Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 "Teichoscopy" is a trope that could also be employed to describe the strength of this fascinating collection of essays: the authors open up new interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex issue of text/image relationship and the analysis of images. Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature. As the title indicates, the volume engages a wide array of scholarly treatments concerning science, art, politics and literature. www.womeningerman.org /pubs/book_reviews/spring97.html   (4278 words)

Criticism: An impossible necessity: translation and the recreation of linguistic and cultural identities in contemporary Chinese American literature As a symbolic trope in these texts, however, "translation" evokes the concept of a crossing of borders, a permeation of barriers erected between what seem to be separate and disjunctive cultural and linguistic entities. For Louie, Ng, and Kingston, then, translation as trope suggests the conflicted necessities of both compromise and bridging, yet also more than this. In the works of Louie, Ng, and Kingston, the translator does the impossible, articulating a unique cultural and linguistic formulation in which the "Ethnic" and the "American" have permeated each other, a cultural and linguistic formulation that is distinctly Chinese American.(4) www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n4_v39/ai_20171495   (809 words)

George Moore's Esther Waters: Selected Bibliography "George Moore's Quest for Canonization and Esther Waters as Female Helpmate." English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 46.2 (2003): 116-39. "Religion as Trope in the Naturalistic Novels of George Moore: A Mummer's Wife, A Drama in Muslin, and Esther Waters." Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism 18.1-2 (2003): 363-71. "Subjectivity and Story in George Moore's Esther Waters." English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 36.2 (1993): 141-57. www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/engl567/estherwatersbib.htm   (403 words)

Manas: Religious texts of India, Ramayana he Ramayana belongs to a class of literature known in Sanskrit as kavya (poetry), though in the West it is considered to belong to the category of literature familiar to readers of Homer, namely the epic. The other kind of excess is to view him merely as a trope — as a sign of patriarchy, for example, or as an insignia of valiant and militant kshatriyahood, which is what the present generation of militant Hindutvavadis have turned him into. The Ramayana existed in the oral tradition perhaps as far back as 1,500 BCE, but the fourth century BCE is generally accepted as the date of its composition in Sanskrit by Valmiki. www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Religions/texts/Ramaya.html   (403 words)

Literary Theory: Bibliography Gates, Henry Louis [1988], The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g) [in, The Signifying Monkey] (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988) (subjects=AfricanAmerican criticism; AfricanAmerican literature; Trope; Rhetoric; Signifier/Signified; Oral tradition; ;.) [Gates,H:SignifyingMonkeyLanguageSignifyin] (genre=m). Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754 [1755], Preface [in, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] (Printed for A. Millar, London, 1755) (subjects=Veracity; Travel literature; ; ; ; ; ;.) [Fielding,H:Preface] (genre=m). Horne Tooke [in, The Spirit of the Age] (Printed for Henry Colburn, London, 1825) (subjects=Took John Horne; Romanticism; Grammar; Conversation; Oratory; ; ;.) [Hazlitt,W:LateMrHorneTooke] (genre=m). www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/LITTH/LitTh.bib.html   (15271 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox Apart from Socrates, the rhetoricians thought of irony, in Quintilian’s terms, as either "trope," a brief figure of speech embedded in a straightforward context, or "schema," an entire speech or case presented in language and a tone of voice that conflict with the true situation. In the early eighteenth century, the omnipresence of French and English satiric literature brought the idea of irony, so called, out of the classroom into the intellectual marketplace; during the intervening twenty centuries it lived in, or on the edge of, rhetorical theory, the two chief fountains of which were Cicero and Quintilian. Irony has continued to appear infields of observation outside literature. www.autodidactproject.org /other/ironydhi.html   (4832 words)

Claude McKay American Writer The Harlem Renaissance Spring in New Hampshire Questia.com Online Library Claude Mckay's "If We Must Die," Home to Harlem, and the Hog Trope, in ANQ The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (includes "The New Realists the Forerunners: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Eric Walrond, Rudolph Fisher, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps") Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance (includes information on Claude McKay in "Literature and Politics") www.questia.com /library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/american-literature/20th-and-21st-centuries/claude-mckay.jsp   (818 words)

S. Hantke: Review of Morgan, The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film As far as the horror genre is concerned, an author who concerns himself with embodiment has his work cut out for himself anyway; the term "body horror" has been a familiar trope among producers and the critics of horror since David Cronenberg's films in the late 1970s and early '80s. When returning to the canonical gothic tradition, which works more easily within the generic definition of horror, the inclusiveness of Morgan's definition comes back to haunt him because here the body as a site of horror is, in fact, a well-established critical trope. In The Biology of Horror, Jack Morgan joins the scores of scholars in the humanities who have discovered the body as a stage of social, political, and ideological drama. rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/57.1/reviews/hantke.asp   (1139 words)

Hamlet Haven: New Historicism hysteria) as a “condition, described early in patriarchal Western culture, [which] has been a literary motif from classical to modern literature” (223). ” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 15 (1995): 223-32. Confidence in the trope explains Shakespeare’s departure from the classical unities, but synecdochic discourses “are already being dismantled in the most celebrated of Renaissance texts, the tragedies of Shakespeare” (30). www.hamlethaven.com /newhistoricism.html   (12786 words)

Double negative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In literature, denying a negation is known as the trope of litotes. Today, the double negative is often considered the mark of an uneducated speaker, but it used to be quite common in English, even in literature. Double negatives are perfectly correct in Ancient Greek, sometimes expressing an affirmation, sometimes strengthening the negation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_negation   (1299 words)

Double negative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In literature, denying a negation is known as the trope of litotes. Today, the double negative is often considered the mark of an uneducated speaker, but it used to be quite common in English, even in literature. Double negatives are perfectly correct in Ancient Greek, sometimes expressing an affirmation, sometimes strengthening the negation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_negative   (1624 words)

Martha Patterson “The Trope of the New Woman in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala -Sa.” Comparing United States Emergent Literatures, Modern Language Association Convention. “The Wisdom of the New: Sui Sin Far and the New Chinese Woman.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Dissertation: “‘Survival of the Best Fitted': The Trope of the New Woman in Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Sui Sin Far, Edith Wharton, and Mary Johnston.” Director: Tom Lutz. faculty.mckendree.edu /martha_patterson/MPCV.htm   (861 words)

Manas: Religious texts of India, Ramayana he Ramayana belongs to a class of literature known in Sanskrit as kavya (poetry), though in the West it is considered to belong to the category of literature familiar to readers of Homer, namely the epic. The other kind of excess is to view him merely as a trope — as a sign of patriarchy, for example, or as an insignia of valiant and militant kshatriyahood, which is what the present generation of militant Hindutvavadis have turned him into. The Ramayana existed in the oral tradition perhaps as far back as 1,500 BCE, but the fourth century BCE is generally accepted as the date of its composition in Sanskrit by Valmiki. www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Religions/texts/Ramaya.html   (1271 words)

American Literature I: Scavenger Hunt You are required to find examples of one type of foot, two types of trope, and two types of two rhetorical figure. Your mission is to locate metrical feet, tropes, and rhetorical figures from within the assigned readings (through Washington Irving). Write out each example in full, including the author’s name, the name of the text from which it comes, and the page number on which it is located. www.nyu.edu /classes/amlit/sum03/amtrope.htm   (162 words)

SULAIR A reception will follow in the Munger Rotunda, featuring; a performance by Professor Bill Mahrt and friends; music of Thomas Tallis; and a trope from the legendary Winchester Troper, one of the treasures of the Parker Library, which will be on display December 10th for the first time ever in the New World. The colloquium is intended to help build momentum for this cross-Atlantic collaboration, and to highlight Stanford’s engagement with this foundation trove of English, Latin and Anglo-Saxon literature. The Libraries and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge have embarked on a major collaboration to share the treasures of the Parker Library (which has been at Corpus Christi since 1569) with the scholarly world via digitization. www-sul.stanford.edu /about_sulair/news_and_events/mparker.html   (306 words)

Renaissance Forum: v2no1 (Spring 1997): Richard Danson Brown By means of the ubi sunt trope, Verlame illustrates the futility of the 'vaine worlds glorie' (43) through a catalogue of historical disasters culminating with the deaths of Leicester and Sidney. But Verlame also recognises that literature can create an enduring record of the past: she functions as a choric figure, whose protracted ubi sunt develops into an assertion of the power of 'eternizing' poetry. The ubi sunt unites Verlame's sense of civic loss with the deaths of Leicester and Sidney, while her panegyric of Camden anticipates the defence of 'eternizing' poetry. www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v2no1/brown.htm   (9762 words)

BAD^# [I:857b] poets in literary figures, and later for trope in general; This period was characterised in literature by ingenuity in using ornaments of style and by love for the art of Some poets of the period delighted in using all kinds of figures of speech in one and the same poem. www.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/S2/SIM-0992.html   (9762 words)

Twentieth Century Literature: Armed with questions: Mary Butts's sacred interrogative Mary Butts's frequent use of the interrogative mode and her persistent thematization of the trope of questioning are prominent features of her writing, yet they have attracted relatively little attention from the increasing number of scholars who have recently helped to revive her literary reputation. Twentieth Century Literature: Armed with questions: Mary Butts's sacred interrogative This indeterminacy is hardly desirable for Butts (though we may note that it has held a strong appeal for many later feminists), since she is eager to assert the importance of the sacred and to make some positive claims about the irrational forces for which religious myths (like that of the Grail) stand. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_3_49/ai_n6130108   (9762 words)

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