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Toward a definition of topos : approaches to analogical reasoning
- Title
- Toward a definition of topos : approaches to analogical reasoning / edited by Lynette Hunter.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN710 .T682 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hunter, Lynette.
- Description
- xviii, 231 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Allegories, rhetoric, imagery, commonplaces, cliches and archetypes are discussed in connection with the literary work of authors such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Emile Zola and James Joyce.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Allegories of paradise: rhetoric and archetype / Paul Tynegate Piehler -- Gardens of eloquence: rhetoric, landscape, and literature in the English Renaissance / Michael Leslie -- Sight unseen: problems with 'imagery' in Macbeth / Ann thompson and John O. Thompson -- The word 'commonplaces' in Montaigne / Francis Goyet -- The play of quotation and commonplace in King Lear / Paul Hammond -- The pursuit of Sophia / Stephen Bygrave -- The rhetoric of the commonplace: argumentation and ideology (Jules Verne and Emile Zola). / Lambert Wierenga -- Commonplace and cliche elements in the textual topoi of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake / Alan Roughley -- From cliche to archetype / Lynette Hunter.
- ISBN
- 0333523539
- 9780333523537
- LCCN
- 93248044
- OCLC
- ocm21228552
- 21228552
- SCSB-1962868
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library