Towards A Definition of Topos

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.