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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... play of quotations from different sources , tested against homely anecdote and apparently common experience , keeps the authority of the authors constantly in question ; while in the Moriae Encomium the play of different voices adopted ...
... play of quotations from different sources , tested against homely anecdote and apparently common experience , keeps the authority of the authors constantly in question ; while in the Moriae Encomium the play of different voices adopted ...
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... play such agreement can only disturb us . This sense of retributive justice is only a verbal summary of the symbolic violence inflicted on Gloucester , a symbolism from which we recoiled earlier . Do we not also recoil now from Edgar's ...
... play such agreement can only disturb us . This sense of retributive justice is only a verbal summary of the symbolic violence inflicted on Gloucester , a symbolism from which we recoiled earlier . Do we not also recoil now from Edgar's ...
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... play with signifieds that are not involved in the signifying play of the prototype . In this way the cliché slogan and the commonplace object that it advertises both become an integral part of the paronomasian play that is so important ...
... play with signifieds that are not involved in the signifying play of the prototype . In this way the cliché slogan and the commonplace object that it advertises both become an integral part of the paronomasian play that is so important ...
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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