TY - JOUR AU - Vasileva, Irina AU - Dvinyatin, Fedor AU - Stepanov, Andrej PY - 2020/08/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Two Kinds of Topoi JF - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica JA - FLR VL - IS - 13 SE - Articles DO - 10.18778/1427-9681.13.15 UR - https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/litrossica/article/view/8239 SP - 161-171 AB - <p>The article deals with the classification of topoi and offers a distinction between <em>conceptualizing topoi</em>, based on similarity and juxtaposition or on the conceptual element of a rhetorical argument, and <em>descriptive topoi</em>, describing the world and the human being, which are close to formulae and cliches. The two kinds of topoi correspond to two fundamental categories of argumentation: “reflection” and “description”. The functions of these topoi are demonstrated on numerous examples from the literature of the post-rhetorical era (19th century), proving the continuity between this literature and the socalled “epoch of the ready-made word”.</p> ER -