Toward a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical ReasoningLynette Hunter Macmillan, 1991 - 231 Seiten 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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... Edgar . " On the other hand , the lament uttered by Gloucester is a quotation from the Book of Homilies , and as ... Edgar enters , Edmond parodically quotes his father's philosophy , and Edgar finds it difficult to recognise his ...
... Edgar . " On the other hand , the lament uttered by Gloucester is a quotation from the Book of Homilies , and as ... Edgar enters , Edmond parodically quotes his father's philosophy , and Edgar finds it difficult to recognise his ...
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... Edgar have been reduced to fragmented speech or silence , and although it may not have the egoistic deviousness of ... Edgar . When Kent declines , Edgar is left to provide the play's concluding commonplace : The weight of this sad time ...
... Edgar have been reduced to fragmented speech or silence , and although it may not have the egoistic deviousness of ... Edgar . When Kent declines , Edgar is left to provide the play's concluding commonplace : The weight of this sad time ...
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... Edgar ; this gives an explanation for the course of the first scene which is grounded in what we recognise to be the commonplace of sentiment . In doing so he rejects Shakespeare's interest in playing with the conventions of romance and ...
... Edgar ; this gives an explanation for the course of the first scene which is grounded in what we recognise to be the commonplace of sentiment . In doing so he rejects Shakespeare's interest in playing with the conventions of romance and ...
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Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activity allegory appears archetype argument attempt audience authority becomes beginning calls century chapter characters cliché common commonplace concerned construction context course critical described discussion Don Quixote Edgar Edmond effect elements English essay example experience father fiction figure function garden give Gloucester grounds hand heading human imagery Italian Italy kind King Lear language Lear literary literature logic London look Macbeth marks means metaphor mind mode Montaigne moral narrative nature never noted novel objects opening particular passage person play political present problem provides question quotation quoted reader reading reasoning reference Renaissance rhetoric romance scene seems seen sense sentence Shakespeare signifying social speak speech stage story structure suggests things tion topics topoi topos traditional Tristram truth turns valid Wake writing