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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... scene depends for its effect on its quotation not of one particular kind of drama , but of the laws of dramatic representa- tion themselves . The scene of Gloucester's supposed leap off Dover cliff may be merely embarrassing to a modern ...
... scene depends for its effect on its quotation not of one particular kind of drama , but of the laws of dramatic representa- tion themselves . The scene of Gloucester's supposed leap off Dover cliff may be merely embarrassing to a modern ...
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... scene , and , indeed , employs the commonplaces of honest , judicial settlement , it will not do . It is interrupted by Lear , whose final speech over the body of Cordelia has haunting half - quotations of the word ' nothing ' which ...
... scene , and , indeed , employs the commonplaces of honest , judicial settlement , it will not do . It is interrupted by Lear , whose final speech over the body of Cordelia has haunting half - quotations of the word ' nothing ' which ...
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... scene probable . ( 11.21-29 ) 20 Tate is in search of a thread upon which to string Shakespeare's jewels , and he finds it in the love of Cordelia for Edgar ; this gives an explanation for the course of the first scene which is grounded ...
... scene probable . ( 11.21-29 ) 20 Tate is in search of a thread upon which to string Shakespeare's jewels , and he finds it in the love of Cordelia for Edgar ; this gives an explanation for the course of the first scene which is grounded ...
Inhalt
Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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