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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... turns herself into an exemplum of virtue , so Perillus turns Leir into an exemplum of the father mistreated by his child , which becomes one of the oldest of commonplaces , that of the degeneracy of the present times : Oh , whom should ...
... turns herself into an exemplum of virtue , so Perillus turns Leir into an exemplum of the father mistreated by his child , which becomes one of the oldest of commonplaces , that of the degeneracy of the present times : Oh , whom should ...
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... turns the main images of the play into fragments which are re - assembled into a rhetorically elegant but incoherent speech , a speech whose excessive copiousness and implausible plurals indicate the insubstantiality of ' Poor Tom ...
... turns the main images of the play into fragments which are re - assembled into a rhetorically elegant but incoherent speech , a speech whose excessive copiousness and implausible plurals indicate the insubstantiality of ' Poor Tom ...
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... turn yet once more , And ere successful Burgundy receive The treasure of thy beauties from the king , Ere happy ... turns to the audience with a lengthy aside : Now comes my trial . How am I distressed , That must with cold speech ...
... turn yet once more , And ere successful Burgundy receive The treasure of thy beauties from the king , Ere happy ... turns to the audience with a lengthy aside : Now comes my trial . How am I distressed , That must with cold speech ...
Inhalt
Rhetoric Landscape | 17 |
Problems with Imagery in Macbeth | 45 |
The Word Commonplaces in Montaigne | 66 |
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