Area	Spring Points

	tropology gary e. davis	June 2020

Analogous with phenomenology, tropology could be usefully rendered as figurative phenomenology. But a trope presumes a figurative difference that phenomenal appeal does not, though all phenomena may be windows into their difference between proximal appearance and richer meaningfulness (i.e., significant meaning) or Meaning. A typical continuum is metonymy (basic symbolism), metaphor / allegory, synecdoche (auratic implicature), and irony (self-undermining of another type of trope). That’s a continuum (from loose to too tight) because metonymy is figurative association; metaphor is figurative analogy; synecdoche is figurative element, and irony is figurative self-undermining. Maybe I’m being simplistic, but anyway tropography can be specified as degrees of figuration. How a trope comes into play (or is coined in creative process) is about tropogeny. Bringing a trope into play (or coining it) is tropogenic. Anytime we attend to the aptness of a figure brought to play, we’re concerned with tropogeny. Dwelling with relations between creativity (-ogeny) of figurative plays (-ography) irt issues of aptness of figurative play is tropologic. That can be treated conceptually as degrees of isomorphism or homological well-formedness. Is any sign a metonym for its reference? Is semiotics a tropology of linguistic means? Is linguisticality tropical of enlanguaging? What’s the conceptuality of implicated kinds in suffixes: ‘-ness’, ‘-ment’, etc.?

“things”

themization

textualization of experience

personification of textuality

phenomenalogy as tropology

next—> a heuristic mindfulness

 

 

 

Be fair. © 2020, gary e. davis