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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... common custome , that that may haply purchase it free passage . ... I have presented myselfe unto myselfe for a subject to write and argument to descant upon . It is the only booke in the world of this kinde , and of a wilde extravagant ...
... common custome , that that may haply purchase it free passage . ... I have presented myselfe unto myselfe for a subject to write and argument to descant upon . It is the only booke in the world of this kinde , and of a wilde extravagant ...
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... common grounds for an audience , especially for the new book - reading audience . The humanist rejection of the topics was overtaken by the Ramist educational system which formed a basis for the ' humanities ' , the study of the ...
... common grounds for an audience , especially for the new book - reading audience . The humanist rejection of the topics was overtaken by the Ramist educational system which formed a basis for the ' humanities ' , the study of the ...
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... common ground may have been expected to have a fairly long ' shelf life ' in terms of its social relevance , which may be why the limitations of a static reasoning theory were not more imme- diately apparent . But where does one have a ...
... common ground may have been expected to have a fairly long ' shelf life ' in terms of its social relevance , which may be why the limitations of a static reasoning theory were not more imme- diately apparent . But where does one have a ...
Inhalt
Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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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