Toward a definition of topos
Subtitle: approaches to analogical reasoning
By: edited by Lynette Hunter.
Contributors: Hunter, Lynette.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; Place (Philosophy) in literature.; Setting (Literature); Analogy in literature.; Reasoning in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.