E ASIAN 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rhetorical Device
26 Feb 2020
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Religion" vs superstition" in xu dishan"s fiction (cont. ) Not about religious conversion to achieve spiritual salvation; nor is it about becoming enlightened, per se. Thinking about themes: identifying and interpreting tropes. Trope: a significant or recurrent theme or motif or rhetorical device which may have different meanings as id reappears throughout the text. I is different from a symbol (where something represent something else. Note: trope has some degree of specificity, so: women protagonists in. But lower-class women who are seeking forms of salvation would be a trope. Also: a trope can occur within a single work, or across multiple works. Religion/superstition is a trope in xu"s work. Interpreting the trope of writing/paper in spring peach . In spring peach , writing and paper form a trope. Literacy vs illiteracy; the production of economic value.
