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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... things truly , but fashion and maske them according to the visage they saw them in ' ( i.243 ) ; in assuring us that the informant whom he is quoting was a man too simple to deceive him , Montaigne foregrounds the practice of reporting ...
... things truly , but fashion and maske them according to the visage they saw them in ' ( i.243 ) ; in assuring us that the informant whom he is quoting was a man too simple to deceive him , Montaigne foregrounds the practice of reporting ...
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... things they did not create ' are nevertheless products of some- thing , and fiction is one medium which produces them . Joseph Andrews , like Tom Jones , is always being mistaken for a gentle- man , Moll Flanders as the gentlewoman she ...
... things they did not create ' are nevertheless products of some- thing , and fiction is one medium which produces them . Joseph Andrews , like Tom Jones , is always being mistaken for a gentle- man , Moll Flanders as the gentlewoman she ...
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... things ' , or as though they derived from a fund of ancient wisdom , popular common sense or what Grange1 terms ' a shared cultural patrimony ' . Sententious discourse has a tend- ency to give its universal and general utterances the ...
... things ' , or as though they derived from a fund of ancient wisdom , popular common sense or what Grange1 terms ' a shared cultural patrimony ' . Sententious discourse has a tend- ency to give its universal and general utterances the ...
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Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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