troping

He is not lamenting the loss of "sweetness and light" as a goal of literary study, nor the rejection of New Critical formalism, which he considers a form of rhetorical criticism that equally fails to accentuate what is truly at stake in the "troping" of both poetry and criticism.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Yet by "strong misreading" I mean "strong troping," and the strength of trope can be recognized by skilled readers in a way that anticipates the temporal progression of generations.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Indeed, its force is so irresistable that it "will impose itself," although such a struggle with the text is carried out only by the "strong reader" who seeks to come to terms with it through an act of troping of his/her own.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Whenever I suggest that there is a defensive element in all interpretation, as in all troping, the suggestions encounter a considerable quantity of very suggestive resistance.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Such an insertion is often referred to as farsa, both in the Middle Ages and modern writings, although "farse" can refer to other types of troping as well.

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

Also, note the complexity of troping in the middle of an otherwise reasonably transparent narrative, “One Heck of a Tree”: “little green men wear crayon sin caps” 12.

Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009

Also, note the complexity of troping in the middle of an otherwise reasonably transparent narrative, “One Heck of a Tree”: “little green men wear crayon sin caps” 12.

HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA EILEEN 2009

Such an insertion is often referred to as farsa, both in the Middle Ages and modern writings, although "farse" can refer to other types of troping as well.

Christmas Music from Medieval England bls 2009

Each poet, as a printer, was intimately familiar with the "material conditions of producing and revising a long poem" through alternating episodes of "contraction and expansion," and each produced texts in which poetic troping of this mode of production served as a metaphor for the revolutionary transformation of the nation.

Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

He may have written something better to begin with but been overruled by a sub-editor with firml ideas about just how little troping the readers of the Higher Ed section can cope with!

98 Reasons For Blogging: 7 Kirsty 2006