tropology

== English == === Etymology === From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek τροπολογία (tropología), equivalent to trope + -ology. === Noun === tropology (countable and uncountable, plural tropologies) (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech). (theology, philosophy) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation. 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