juxtology

Etymology
Combination of  ("study of"). Apparently coined by R. Allen Shoaf in the 1980s

Noun

 * 1) the study in literature of juxtaposition in text and semantics.
 * 2) * 1989 R.A. Shoaf, "Medieval Studies After Derrida, After Heidigger," in Julian N. Wasserman, Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature, Syracuse University Press, 1989.
 * Juxtology emerges from the ancient epistemology of knowledge by contraries and pursues, by comparisons - be they of thinkers and their ideas or of the minutest items of a text, syllables and even individual letters - the aleatory juxtapositions of minds or of sounds that produce the phenomena of meanings. So doing, juxtology recognizes the ontology of error and its necessity: we humans come to the truth only by wandering.
 * 1) * 2001 James L. Paxton, "Inventing the Subject and the Personification of Will in Piers Plowman," in Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays, Psychology Press, 2001. Page 225.
 * The allegorical tropes paranomasia and syllepsis, or rather, their compositional practice juxtology, situates Langland's cognitive allegory in the context of the poet's social and political obsession - ...
 * The allegorical tropes paranomasia and syllepsis, or rather, their compositional practice juxtology, situates Langland's cognitive allegory in the context of the poet's social and political obsession - ...