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Towards A Definition of Topos

Approaches to Analogical Reasoning

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Lynette Hunter

    1. Department of English, University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Allegories of Paradise: Rhetoric and Archetype

    • Paul Tynegate Piehler
    Pages 1-16

  3. Gardens of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Landscape, and Literature in the English Renaissance

    • Michael Leslie
    Pages 17-44

  4. Sight Unseen: Problems with ‘Imagery’ in Macbeth

    • Ann Thompson, John O. Thompson
    Pages 45-65

  5. The Word ‘Commonplaces’ in Montaigne

    • Francis Goyet
    Pages 66-77

  6. The Play of Quotation and Commonplace in King Lear

    • Paul Hammond
    Pages 78-129

  7. The Pursuit of Sophia

    • Stephen Bygrave
    Pages 130-157

  8. The Rhetoric of the Commonplace: Argumentation and Ideology (Jules Verne and Emile Zola)

    • Lambert Wierenga
    Pages 158-181

  9. Commonplace and Cliché Elements in the Textual Topoi of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

    • Alan Roughley
    Pages 182-198

  10. From Cliché to Archetype

    • Lynette Hunter
    Pages 199-227

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 228-231
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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.

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  • Department of English, University of Leeds, UK

    Lynette Hunter

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