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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... speech , it also constrains speech through the tyranny of custom . The Adagia , particularly in the more substantial essays , rescue important ideas from being merely familiar , because the easy repetition of dulce bellum inex- pertis ...
... speech , it also constrains speech through the tyranny of custom . The Adagia , particularly in the more substantial essays , rescue important ideas from being merely familiar , because the easy repetition of dulce bellum inex- pertis ...
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... speech is couched in rhyming couplets , which give it the air of sententious authority , and its word - play points ... speech is like Kent's in being rhymed , but it notably lacks Kent's good judgement ; instead , the rhymes of Lear's ...
... speech is couched in rhyming couplets , which give it the air of sententious authority , and its word - play points ... speech is like Kent's in being rhymed , but it notably lacks Kent's good judgement ; instead , the rhymes of Lear's ...
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... speech in which language is reduced to mere sounds : ' Do , de , do , de , do , de . ' But the mode changes again , and at the end of the speech disorder is evident only in the confused perception of the outside world , not in any ...
... speech in which language is reduced to mere sounds : ' Do , de , do , de , do , de . ' But the mode changes again , and at the end of the speech disorder is evident only in the confused perception of the outside world , not in any ...
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Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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