Toward a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical ReasoningLynette Hunter Macmillan, 1991 - 231 páginas The word 'topos' means place, either physical, natural, logical or rhetorical. This collections of essays covers a wide range of mostly English literature from Chaucer and Spenser, via Fielding, to Joyce, with one or two incursions into French writing, in the form of essays on Montaigne and Verne, seeking to apply a rhetorical understanding of 'topos' or commonplaces to the criticism of literature. -- Book jacket. |
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... described as a somewhat elaborate form of metaphor whose significance or reference tended towards the elusive . Its treatment in a typical classical rhetoric , the Ad Herennium ( first century BC ) illustrates the point . Identified as ...
... described as a somewhat elaborate form of metaphor whose significance or reference tended towards the elusive . Its treatment in a typical classical rhetoric , the Ad Herennium ( first century BC ) illustrates the point . Identified as ...
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... described as picaresque , from the Spanish picaro or rogue of the romances which Cervantes parodies in Don Quixote . I say mistakenly because it is evident that the displaced protagonists of say , Fielding are displaced only temporarily ...
... described as picaresque , from the Spanish picaro or rogue of the romances which Cervantes parodies in Don Quixote . I say mistakenly because it is evident that the displaced protagonists of say , Fielding are displaced only temporarily ...
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... described by the narrator , and is directed towards the place where the rest of the plot will unfold : Transylvania . Once the narrative has been ' localised ' , an individual shepherd - Erik - will be described as conforming either to ...
... described by the narrator , and is directed towards the place where the rest of the plot will unfold : Transylvania . Once the narrative has been ' localised ' , an individual shepherd - Erik - will be described as conforming either to ...
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Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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allegory annotations archetype argument audience authority becomes Bloom Bomarzo Bower of Bliss C.S. Lewis Chaucer Clarissa cliché commonplace and cliché commonplace-book Cordelia dialectics Don Quixote Edgar Edmond ellipticalisation English essay example father fiction Finnegans Wake Fool function genre Gloucester Goneril ideological imagery Italianate garden Joseph Andrews Joyce Joyce's writing Kenilworth Kent King Lear language Lear's Leir literary literature locus amoenus logic London Macbeth McLuhan medieval metaphor metonymy mode monplace Montaigne moral narrative Nonsuch Nonsuch Palace novel passage person and act philosophical potted meat probe question quotation quoted reader reading reasoning recognise Renaissance rhetoric rhetoricians romance scene sense sentence Shakespeare signifying play social context speech Spenser structure suggests synecdoche textual things thou tion Tom Jones topics topoi topos traditional Tristram Shandy truth Ulysses valid Verne Villa Villa Lante visual Wake Wake's words