0 a traditional theme (= subject) that is found in literature:
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children translates topoi, events, characters, and images from western fiction into the Indian terms of Rushdie's own narrative.
The situation of Oates going outside into the Antarctic blizzard is a topos on which he worked endless variations.
There are some problems involved in writing any kind of history, whether of forms, ideas, topoi, or texts.
By juxtaposing texts from different eras and regions, Ho brings out clearly the recurring topos of the texts, translocality.
Hence, although this view is a fundamental one of which experienced topos theorists are fully aware, it tends to get obscured in the exposition.
The accompaniment draws on all the topoi of melodramatic rhetoric, but makes particular use of instrumental solos identified with a particular character.
First, let us recall some standard notions and results in topos theory.
Wilcher shows how individual royalists' methods ranged from the use of unconventional topoi to the employment of genres which they had previously neglected.
