Literary notes about Transposition (AI summary)
The term "transposition" has been used in literature to denote a wide range of shifts—from the literal rearrangement of musical keys to the metaphorical reordering of ideas, cultural values, or perceptions. In some texts, it describes tangible alterations such as the shifting of a song from one key to another ([1]) or the natural movement of musical scales ([2]), while in other works it adopts abstract meanings. For instance, Bergson uses the concept to explore how comic exaggeration and the transformation of past into present create humor ([3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). In philosophical and theoretical contexts, Plato and his interpreters discuss "transposition" as a method for reordering ranks or principles ([10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]), suggesting a deeper, often unclear, reconfiguration of elements. Similarly, thinkers like Hans Gross, Freud, Nietzsche, Jefferson, and Kersey Graves extend the notion to cover shifts from the ideal to the real, the dream-life, cultural frameworks, or even semantic reinterpretations ([16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]).
- This is, no doubt, the secret of the loss of effect so often produced by the transposition of a song from one key to another.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin - There is nothing more natural than sol-faing by transposition, when the scale is transposed.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The transposition from the ancient to the modern—always a laughable one—draws its inspiration from the same idea.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - The comic in TRANSPOSITION is much more far-reaching.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - Exaggeration is always comic when prolonged, and especially when systematic; then, indeed, it appears as one method of transposition.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - Indeed, transposition is to ordinary language what repetition is to comedy.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - But if our analysis is correct, degradation is only one form of transposition, and transposition itself only one of the means of obtaining laughter.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - But if our analysis is correct, degradation is only one form of transposition, and transposition itself only one of the means of obtaining laughter.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - Here again transposition may take place in either direction.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - In this passage he shadows forth a general truth, but he does not tell us by what steps the transposition of ranks is to be effected.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Had he lived in our times he would have made the transposition himself.
— from Phaedrus by Plato - This is a matter of secondary importance, like the principle of transposition which was intimated in the parable of the earthborn men.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - This is a matter of secondary importance, like the principle of transposition which was intimated in the parable of the earthborn men.
— from The Republic by Plato - In a concave mirror the top and bottom are inverted, but this is no transposition.
— from Timaeus by Plato - For all our thoughts are formed either by indirect perception, or by similarity, or analogy, or transposition, or combination, or opposition.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - When Hartmann says that will is the transposition of the ideal into the real, he sounds foolish, but in one sense the definition is excellent.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - The transposition of the ballast of a culture.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Nobody will claim that in the transposition of willing into the expression of human capacity, the question of determinism is solved.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - Reduction of scale; transposition.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - From both sources we have seen that the dream-work consists essentially in the transposition of thoughts into an hallucinatory experience.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - If Jesus is "very God," and there is but one God, then the foregoing transposition cannot mar the sense nor altar the truth of one text quoted.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - It is frequently important to understand the curious transposition in meaning which foreign words get, e.g., commode, fidel, and famos.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
