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Definition of Topos
1. Noun. A traditional theme or motif or literary convention. "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses"
Definition of Topos
1. Noun. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. ¹
2. Noun. (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Topos
1. a stock rhetorical theme [n -POI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topos
Literary usage of Topos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geschichte der Musik by August Wilhelm Ambros, Gustav Nottebohm, B. von Sokolowsky, Carl Ferdinand Becker, Heinrich Reimann, Otto Kade (1887)
"So kann denn Aristoxenus in der ersten Harmonik § 21 sagen: „Wenn auch das System
an und für sich durch die Verschiedenheit des topos nicht verändert wird, ..."
2. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"... by the market that sells literacy as though there were no tomorrow despite
the fact that literacy has lost its dominant position in our lives. topos ..."
3. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana by Thomas Grenville, John Thomas Payne, Henry Foss, William Brenchley Rye (1842)
"topos;. I. 128. Nicolson, Hist. Lib. 147. Wood's Athens; Oxonienses by Bliss, II.
500. REYNOLDS, GEORGE. An historical Essay upon the Government of the ..."
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