Search results for "Trope" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • quot;resemblance" nominalism and "trope" nominalism. there seem to be two most promising ones: trope nominalism and moderate realism ...
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  • might be sung above sacred texts in the form of a trope, or the sacred text might be placed within a familiar secular melody. These musical innovations ...
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  • ===Paganism as a Trope in the Modern West=== With the dawn of the Romantic period in the modern west, paganism (especially in the Greco-Roman ...
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  • or a lotus flower (a potent religious trope likely borrowed from Buddhist symbology). Goodrich, 314; Ling, 66-67. ==Area of Patronage== ...
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  • Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...
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  • Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, motive, or a ...
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  • is sung or chanted with traditional melody or trope (cantillation). Depending upon their size, many synagogues employ either a professional or lay ...
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  • Mystery plays, sometimes also called miracle plays (though these tended to focus more on the lives of saints), are among the earliest formally ...
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  • can be seen to Christianize a familiar literary trope. Butler, 130. The second possibility, thought by many to be more likely, is that miraculous ...
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  • In classical rhetoric, personification is a figure of speech (trope) that employs the deliberate use of anthropomorphism, often to make an emotional ...
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  • Jonson himself was not especially intrigued by the trope of "humors." Since only Kitely is dominated by a "humor" as Jonson defined ...
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  • Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist. Vico presented his philosophical ...
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  • often very learned and far-fetched, a favorite trope (theme) of Antiquity, formed the subject of just one of the encyclopedia's twenty books. ...
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  • is sung or chanted with traditional melody or trope. Depending upon the size and platform, many synagogues designate or employ a professional or ...
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  • Master-slave morality. Hegel's master-slave trope, and particularly the emphasis laid on recognition, has been of crucial influence on Frantz Fanon ...
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  • This mythic trope (the descent to the Underworld) is paralleled in tales from various mythic systems worldwide: the Japanese myth of Izanagi ...
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  • morality to indigenous cultures. It is a common trope of the English language to describe erosion as the gradual, organic transformation of something ...
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  • Yaacov Trope and Akiva Liberman suggested that people compare the ... Y. Trope and A. Liberman, "Social hypothesis testing: Cognitive ...
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  • Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...
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  • explicit reference to the "scapegoat" trope: He properly atones for an offense who offers something which the offended one loves equally ...
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