troped

The same attentive, complex, and creative readings of literary texts that we develop in our classrooms may, at least in some cases, be self-consciously turned or "troped" to help shed new light on even the most resistantly complicated facets of the world surrounding

Critical Presentism 2002

"troped"; i.e. turned into figures which re-present the fundamental idea:

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Amis thesis is that 'the sexual revolution' entailed 'girls acting like boys' which is to say: replacing sexual passivity with sexual agency, which platitutde is troped rather weakly in this novel as a kind of cross-dressing, like Shakespearian comedy.

Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Amis thesis is that 'the sexual revolution' entailed 'girls acting like boys' which is to say: replacing sexual passivity with sexual agency, which platitutde is troped rather weakly in this novel as a kind of cross-dressing, like Shakespearian comedy.

Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

So as not to further confuse the previous post (which was already quite Byzantine enough), I here print all the words to the "troped lesson" from that post (here again is the mp3), in Latin and then English:

And all the words to the troped lesson, too bls 2009

The troped lesson Laudes Deo for two voices, sung at Midnight Mass of Christmas, is essentially a display piece for two solo voices: with its elaborate melodic writing and even more complex rhythmic effects, recalling the music of the Eton Choirbook composers and of Johnson's fellow-Scot, Robert Carver, it probably dates from about the same period.

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

The troped lesson Laudes Deo for two voices, sung at Midnight Mass of Christmas, is essentially a display piece for two solo voices: with its elaborate melodic writing and even more complex rhythmic effects, recalling the music of the Eton Choirbook composers and of Johnson's fellow-Scot, Robert Carver, it probably dates from about the same period.

Christmas Music from Medieval England bls 2009

This kind of thing is what I'm most interested in, though: a "troped lesson mp3."

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

This kind of thing is what I'm most interested in, though: a "troped lesson mp3."

Christmas Music from Medieval England bls 2009

So as not to further confuse the previous post (which was already quite Byzantine enough), I here print all the words to the "troped lesson" from that post (here again is the mp3), in Latin and then English:

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009