{"id":6355,"date":"2016-06-17T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/name-the-trope\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:35:24","slug":"name-the-trope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/name-the-trope\/","title":{"rendered":"Name the Trope!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the following entries I engage in a form of creative anachronism:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Epictetus Advises Imelda Marcos<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Camus on Crybullies, Safe Spaces, and Trigger Warnings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Heidegger on Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With respect to the third entry, a young man with an overly literal mind wrote to inform me that while my Heidegger quotation was from 1935, Cassius Clay a.k.a. Muhammad Ali, did not see the light of day until 1942.  So how could Heidegger be commenting on Ali?<\/span><\/p>\n

In this sort of literary trope what one does is take contemporary individuals such as Marcos and Ali as tokens so representative of their types as to count as types.  The quoted commentary is then to be read as directed against the type.  Since the type is relatively timeless, the anachronism is innocuous.  What is true of the type is true of every token thereof, whether past, present, or future.<\/span><\/p>\n

The worth of my trope, like the worth of many, is its contribution to concreteness.  Imelda Marcos as opposed to a shoe fetishist.  Cassius Clay as opposed to a prize fighter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now here is my question:  Is there any accepted name for this literary trope, can we subsume it under an extant trope, or should we coin a name and add it to the list of tropes<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the following entries I engage in a form of creative anachronism: Epictetus Advises Imelda Marcos Camus on Crybullies, Safe Spaces, and Trigger Warnings Martin Heidegger on Muhammad Ali. With respect to the third entry, a young man with an overly literal mind wrote to inform me that while my Heidegger quotation was from 1935, … Continue reading “Name the Trope!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}