Jerome in - voked the literal, tropological, and mystical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

There is, however, a complex ambivalence embedded in this tropological revenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Equiano's "progress" is not just the tropological freeing of the soul from the symbolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Cassian, who set forth a system of historical (literal), tropological (moral), allegorical, and anagogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Aristotle's texts, derives the possibility of tropological substitution from the catachresis "sun as sower.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Between the tropological and the performative there is a separation which allows for no mediation whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics] Reference

In this context, Equiano understands his struggle with the sailors on board the Morning Star as a tropological rehearsal of the war between the tribes of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Potkay's decision to focus only on the tropological leaves the question of the anagogical unaddressed, but, as Potkay has recently argued in "History ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'] Reference

This tropological strategy was far from unusual in Evangelical self-fashionings, but Potkay demonstrates that unlike other Puritan spiritual autobiographies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Guillory is certainly right at least to this extent: anyone attempting to normalize de Man's use of tropological terms will be in for many a sleepless night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference

Anthropomorphism freezes the infinite chain of tropological transformations and propositions into one single assertion or essence which, as such, excludes all others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference

But behind and following this invocation of Godly vengeance lies a more troubling tropological reading based not on The Book of Martyrs but rather on the Book of Judges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

After the defeat of Tipu in 1793, war between the East India Company and Mysore was now refigured as a tropological struggle between normative and errant models of paternal care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta] Reference

It seems that one passage of sacred Scripture cannot have several interpretations, such as the historical or literal, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Before analyzing Equiano's exhortations on the marketplace, it is important to recognize that Equiano completes the tropological relation to Judges 19-21 by entering into the slave trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

He addresses, first, the irreversibility of the passage from cognitive or tropological to performative, and then invokes a trap into which he had fallen in approaching this concept of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics] Reference

Thus by a convenient tropological substitution, a transcendental ego is created that does not have to work at being a subject, because it is produced unconsciously and, as Schelling later says.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference

The fascination of religious symbolism crept over minds that had hardly yet begun to see and understand things as they are; and in all their reading the "moral," "anagogical," and "tropological" significations prevailed against the literal sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

When de Man speaks of an irreversible movement from the tropological to the performative, he invokes the irreversibility of nonclassical processes: processes generative of effects that prohibit historical understanding from tracing them back to a cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Throw any subject at Derrida, and he would give back to you a textual/tropological analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [k-punk] Reference

Probably some allegoric, or more strictly ‘tropological,’ instruction may be drawn from the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.] Reference

It is impossible to deny the beauty of many stanzas, and the ingenuity of some tropological applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hymns of the Eastern Church] Reference

The elaborate exposition by Honorius of Autun of the book in its historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical meanings deserves special mention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The rendering "star of the sea" is without foundation except in a tropological sense; Cornelious à Lapide would render "lady, or teacher, or guide of the sea", the sea being this world, of which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Sixthly, he so allegorizes paradise as to destroy the truth of history, understanding angels instead of trees, heavenly virtues instead of rivers; and he overthrows all that is contained in the history of paradise by his tropological interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference

Thus Hugo St. Victor includes the anagogical under the allegorical, naming only the historical, the allegorical, and the tropological (Sentences 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

"the tropological" do not differ, since the former of them renders the cause of the grammatical sense, and the latter contains an accommodation of it to the circumstances of persons, place, time, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

Potkay's account of the tropological gestures in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Is not a negation of the tropological.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics] Reference

She preaches, poeticizes, and raps us, indeed, envelops us, into a tropological maze.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

Sols, such tropological, allegorical expositions, to salve all appearances, objections, such quirks and quiddities, quodlibetaries, as Bale saith of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference