Three Tropes on Trump: A Textbook on Applied Marxism, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis

by Arthur Asa Berger

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Three Tropes on Trump: A Textbook on Applied Marxism, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis uses the term "trope" in an unusual way-not as an expression in a figurative sense but as a form or method of analysis. This book uses Marxist theory, semiotic theory, and psychoanalytic theory in an attempt to understand what we might call the Trump phenomenon and the Trump style. Each chapter features a primer on its methodology, and it applies concepts from these theories to Trump's candidacy and presidency, covering everything from his hair style, his use of spectacle, his use of insults, his comedic aspects, his personality, and his many psychological problems to help make sense of Trump and his relationship to his base and to the American public.

  • ISBN13 9781433170317
  • Publish Date 29 November 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc