Is Imagery A Trope?

Another word for trope is figure of speech or figure of thought, and such figures all have two things in common: 1) they are substitutions, where one word or phrase stands in for another, and 2) there is something image-like about them, as indicated by the words ‘figure’ and ‘imagery’.

Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots

Hidden Figures is about three women, but it focuses mainly on Katherine Johnson’s story, so the other two women are given their …

What Dark Academia Says About Elite Education

The internet aesthetic that romanticizes education, Dark Academia, channels the glamour of Oxbridge intellectuals, mixed with a …

Book Launch of Leopoldine Prosperetti’s “Woodland Imagery in Northern Art”

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