different between allegory vs tropology

English

Etymology

From Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ????????? (all?goría), from ????? (állos, “other”) + ??????? (agoreú?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl.???o??.i/, /?æl.?????.i/

Noun

allegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)

1. (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
2. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
3. A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
4. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

Derived terms

• allegoric
• allegorical
• allegorically
• allegorist
• allegorize

Related terms

• agora
• agoraphobia
• category

Translations

See also

• metaphor

English

Etymology

From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek ?????????? (tropología), equivalent to trope + -ology.

Noun

tropology (countable and uncountable, plural tropologies)

1. (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
   • 1998, Allen Mitchie, Between Calvin and Calvino: Postmodernism and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Greg Clingham (editor), Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century, page 54,

     But she is not right to claim this is because "rhetoric" must necessarily be "in the Nietzschean sense that all language is founded in tropology."³⁷ Since when has tropology been in conflict with theology? Tropology and rhetoric thrive in the works of both Calvin and Calvino, and tropology is the very lifeblood of The Pilgrim's Progress.

2. (theology, philosophy) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
   • 2009, Frank Ankersmit, 2: White's "New Neo-Kantianism": Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska, Hans Kellner (editors), Re-Figuring Hayden White, page 37,

     A similar story can be told for White's tropology. Tropology also is something that “the mind brings” to (past) reality and that is not part of the past itself.

3. A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
   • 1994, Lee Edelman, preface, Homographesis, hardcover edition, page xiv,

     These essays, in other words, endeavor to read the literary, cultural, and political implications of the tropologies of sexuality that are put into play once the field of sexuality becomes charged by the widespread availability of a "homosexual" identity, and they explore the determining relation between "homosexuality" and "identity" as both have been constructed in modern Euro-American societies.

Usage notes

The countable interpretation of the sense the use of a trope is an instance of something being used as a trope, which is indistinguishable from trope.

Related terms

• trope
• tropologic
• tropological

See also

• allegory
• anagogy
• exegesis
• hermeneutics

Anagrams

• protology