Topos
WordNet
noun
(1) A traditional theme or motif or literary convention
"James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses"
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Etymology
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Noun
- A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 239,
- The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 239,
- A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.
Noun
- Topos, literary theme.
- Topos, mathematical structure.