Topos-Chôra

In this chapter, it is argued that a pivotal episode in Esther, Mordecai’s refusal to bow to Haman, is to be read literarily, as a topos, rather than literally, as a historical eve...

Der Topos vom Krieg in der Gelehrtenrepublik ist im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert im akademischen Diskurs allgegenwärtig. Dieses Themenheft versteht diesen Topos nicht allein als rhetori...

Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. T...