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Towards A Definition of Topos

Approaches to Analogical Reasoning

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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

    • Paul Tynegate Piehler
    Pages 1-16
  3. Sight Unseen: Problems with ‘Imagery’ in Macbeth

    • Ann Thompson, John O. Thompson
    Pages 45-65
  4. The Pursuit of Sophia

    • Stephen Bygrave
    Pages 130-157
  5. From Cliché to Archetype

    • Lynette Hunter
    Pages 199-227
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 228-231

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Leeds, UK

    Lynette Hunter

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