10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSUMPTION»
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transumption in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
transumption and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
I proposed exhuming, in my last chapter, the old rhetoricians' term metalepsis or
transumption to name a figure of interpretive allusion. In view both of the rarity of
the word and of its use for the figure corresponding to one of his revisionary ...
2
Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism
The figura that best describes these cultural relations, itself containing a
polysemous past, is called metalepsis in Greek and, in its more commonly
Englished Latin form, transumption. It has an ancient but not entirely respectable
history ...
3
Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity
As it turns out, transumption is variously Bloom's trope for the fulfillment and the
failure of poetic desire, for the process of secularization, and for canonization.
The failure of transumption after Milton raises the question of whether true ...
4
God and the Poetic Ego: The Appropriation of Biblical and ...
Bloom's most general term for the process whereby a poet masters his precursors
is 'transumption'. Bloom spoils this word by overuse in too great a diversity of
contexts, so that its meaning becomes at times rather hazy. When he uses it to ...
5
The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: ...
[The Topic From Transumption] 35. There are two sorts of transumption. One sort
occurs when {75} a name or an expression that signifies one thing is transferred
to signify something else in virtue of some similarity. For example, 'smiling' is ...
Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, 1988
6
EPZ Deconstruction and Criticism
Before describing this crossing and the superb section it introduces, I digress
again into Fletcher's theories of threshold, sequence and personification, as they
were my starting-point for thinking about transumption. Coleridge credited
Spenser ...
The fico image is so effective, argues Ahern, because the poet deploys the
mastertrope of transumptio or transumption, a rhetorical technique in which the
connotations of a literary trope are left deliberately and self—consciously
ambiguous in ...
Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, 2013
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A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece ...
E. Difficult Ornament: produced by the ten types of transumption (transumptio) or
transference (= the tropes), nine of meaning and one of order; those of meaning
include four “weightier” and five “lighter” types; the first four types all involve shifts
...
James Jerome Murphy, 2012
9
A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy
Such transumption cannot be complete; and Gilbert must introduce the concept of
proportionate transumption in order to avoid the confusion between common and
proper arguments for which he has blamed the heretics.37 Gilbert does not ...
10
Essayists and Prophets
Very briefly, transumption or metalepsis is the traditional term in rhetoric for the
trope that works to make the late seem early, and the early seem late. It lies
against time, so as to accomplish what Nietzsche called the will's revenge
against time, ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSUMPTION»
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transumption is used in the context of the following news items.
Det blanka är berättelsens slående hjärta
Här, i kapitlet ”Transumption”, finns en vindlande poetisk kronologi över engelskans blank. Kapitelrubriken, som betyder ”övertagande” är en term Bloom ... «Svenska Dagbladet, Jan 15»
Is Cannibalism Unhealthy or Just Awful?
Remarkably, although the practice of transumption among the Fore ended (for the most part) shortly after Australian authorities outlawed it in the mid-1950s, ... «Gizmodo, Jul 14»
The dangers of cannibalism
In the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea the locals, known as the Fore, practiced what was politely called "transumption," which led during the late 1950s ... «University of Texas at Austin News, Jul 11»
Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader
But what trope is troping the concept of trope here? Transumption or metaleptic reversal, I would say, which is Nietzsche's favorite figure, the entire basis of his ... «New York Times, May 11»
