Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From microtropes, through macrotropes,to mega- and metatropes of artistic language and conceptualization -- 1.1 Tropes (semantic figures) defined -- 1.2 On the way from microtropes to macrotropes(from 'small' to 'big' figures) -- 1.3 Megatropes and metatropes ('large figures') -- 1.3.1 Megatropes -- 1.3.2 Metatropes -- Chapter 2. The Vichian tropological tetrad and its contemporary variants -- 2.1 The Vichian tetrad -- 2.1.1 Giambattista Vico's tropological circle -- 2.1.2 Kenneth Burke and his master tropes -- 2.1.3. Hayden White's tetrad: Giambattista Vicoand Jean Piaget brought together -- 2.2 Metaphor - from micro- to megatrope -- 2.2.1 Theoretical considerations -- 2.2.2 By way of illustration -- 2.3 Metonymy - from micro- to megametonymy -- 2.3.1 Theoretical considerations -- 2.3.2 By way of illustration -- 2.4 Synecdoche - from micro- to megasynecdoche -- 2.4.1 Theoretical considerations -- 2.4.2 By way of illustration -- 2.5 Irony -- 2.5.1 Theoretical considerations -- 2.5.2 By way of illustration -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Vichian circle -- 3.1. The tetrad in other fields of study -- 3.1.1. Sigmund Freud's tropology of dreams -- 3.1.2 Jacques Lacan and the figures of the unconscious -- 3.1.3 Claude Lévi-Strauss and the tropes of the "savage"mind -- 3.2 The set of master tropes extended -- 3.2.1 Simile - Comparison -- 3.2.2 Antithesis -- 3.2.3 Catachresis -- 3.2.4 Euphemia (Understatement) -- 3.2.5 Suppression -- 3.2.6 Hyperbole (Exaggeration) -- 3.3 Cumulative effect of troping -- Chapter 4. Tropological space and figurative worlds -- 4.1 Tropological space -- 4.1.1 Tropological space as a subpart of logical space -- 4.1.2 Tropological space as a subpart of textual/discoursespace -- 4.1.3 Tropological space as a subpart of artistic space.

4.1.4 Tropological space - by way of illustration -- 4.1.5 Perspectivization and spatial transformations with intropological space -- 4.1.6 Space in its own right or a spatial metaphor? -- 4.2 Figurative worlds -- 4.2.1 Some theoretical views on the imaginary worlds of literature -- 4.2.2 The double-world approach to metaphor -- 4.2.3 Figurative worlds as text-worlds -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.