TOPOS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: topoi   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traditional theme or motif or literary convention

Example:

James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("topos" is a kind of...):

motif; theme (a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work)

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