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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... particular sight ; the closing of the eyes ; the watering of the eyes ; the detachment of the eyes from their sockets ; the death of the owner of the eyes . 3. An eye is a particular sort of physical object . It is fragile and easily ...
... particular sight ; the closing of the eyes ; the watering of the eyes ; the detachment of the eyes from their sockets ; the death of the owner of the eyes . 3. An eye is a particular sort of physical object . It is fragile and easily ...
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... particular adventure through which a group of four characters has lived . The story Verne is beginning to construct is , in other words , conceived as an investigation into the extent to which the particular case of the four characters ...
... particular adventure through which a group of four characters has lived . The story Verne is beginning to construct is , in other words , conceived as an investigation into the extent to which the particular case of the four characters ...
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... particular . The chronological order of the narration is not necessarily identical to that of the argumentative organisation . Thus , in the fragment we have cited , shepherds are initially described as a class and as people imagine ...
... particular . The chronological order of the narration is not necessarily identical to that of the argumentative organisation . Thus , in the fragment we have cited , shepherds are initially described as a class and as people imagine ...
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