Abstract
Our view of tropes is that they are rhetoric's own unique resources, but for ineluctable historiographical reasons have been more or less closed off from the production of theory. Our "trope project" began simply enough. If the workings of tropes could be identified in a new way, then the aim and purpose of rhetoric could be retheorized in terms new to democratic deliberation. Working under the slogan "Yes, tropes-but all of them," we attempted a new classification system based on the Greek roots of hundreds of tropes listed in various old and new sources such as Bernard Dupriez's A Dictionary of Literary Devices, A-Z and Richard Lanham's A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, respectively.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
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Recommended Citation
Sutton, Jane S., and Mari Lee Mifsud. "Introduction: A Revolution in Tropes." In A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric, xi-xxvii. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015.