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Toward a definition of topos : approaches to analogical reasoning

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
Print Book, English, 1991
Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780333523537, 0333523539
21228552
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