Topos
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"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." --Flesh in the Age of Reason (2004) by Roy Porter |
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Topos (From Ancient Greek τόπος) means place. In literary theory it refers to a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
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Derived terms
- Anatopism
- Chronotope
- Dystopia
- Erotopia
- Hierotopy
- Topic
- Topography
- Topology
- Toponymy
- Utopia
- Topophilia
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- Literary topos
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