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parabasis

(pəˈræbəsɪs)
n, pl -ses (-ˌsiːz)
(Theatre) (in classical Greek comedy) an address from the chorus to the audience
[C19: from Greek, from parabanein to step forward]
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O Coro, deixado sozinho por Sofocles no palco como uma parabasis, fala das leis eternas que ninguem pode violar sem receber, em troca, castigos violentos.
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Defining irony as "the permanent parabasis of the allegory of tropes," de Man performs a reading of Schlegel to assert that irony disrupts the entire system through which the self is posited, the posited entity relates to itself, and meaning is made (179).
(7) I am referring to Friedrich Schlegel's definition of irony as "permanent parabasis" (Firchow: 257-71).
Nevertheless, Bloom is of the opinion that the "epistemological approach" is itself "a trope." Moreover, irony, in its primary sense of alegory (you say x in order to suggest y), is according to Bloom (1997: XIX, XX) "the epistemological trope-of-tropes," while for de Man this constituted the very condition of literary language whereby is produced that "permanent parabasis of meaning" (i.e.
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