Towards a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical Reasoning

ISBN-13: 9781349115044 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 231 str.

Lynette Hunter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Allegories of paradise - rhetoric and archetype, Paul 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 words "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 Ullysses and Finnegans Wake, Alan Roughley; from cliche to archtype, Lynette Hunter.