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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... language to mere sound , and our mode of knowledge disinte- grates as we watch . The elegance of the rhetoric ensures that the rhetoric itself becomes visible , and it is a rhetoric which is even emptier of truth than that of the ...
... language to mere sound , and our mode of knowledge disinte- grates as we watch . The elegance of the rhetoric ensures that the rhetoric itself becomes visible , and it is a rhetoric which is even emptier of truth than that of the ...
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... language could be tallied with experience ' and concerns itself ' not with representing experience through language but with experi- encing language through a destruction of representation'.2 Joyce was fully aware of the implications ...
... language could be tallied with experience ' and concerns itself ' not with representing experience through language but with experi- encing language through a destruction of representation'.2 Joyce was fully aware of the implications ...
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... language as a ' gossip ' ( FW 38.23 ) , a language combining quotidian gossip with the figurative language of the biblical Gospels . While there are obvious differences between the methods with which Joyce employed commonplace and ...
... language as a ' gossip ' ( FW 38.23 ) , a language combining quotidian gossip with the figurative language of the biblical Gospels . While there are obvious differences between the methods with which Joyce employed commonplace and ...
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Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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