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Topothesia
Topothesia is “the description of an imaginable or non-existent place”. It has been classified as a type of enargia (a synonym to “hypotyposis”), which is a “generic name for a group of figures aiming at vivid, lively description”. Edgar Allan Poe used enargia frequently to describe his characters in his literary works.
According to Philip R. Hardie, a professor at the University of Cambridge, its determining characteristic is its position within a text. Normally, when the descriptive analysis of a place is found to discontinue a narrative, this interrupting section can be considered topothesia. In addition, it has a stereotyped entry formula that facilitates distinguishing the narrative from the descriptive. In most famous texts, topothesia begins with est locus (“there is a place” in Latin), as can be seen in ''Metamorphoses'' by Ovid.
== Etymology ==
Topothesia is derived from a mixture of two Greek words: “topos” (τοπος), which literally translated means “place”, and the suffix “-thesia”, which is obtained from the word “aisthesia”〔Can also be spelled as “aestheisa”, which is a common word in the English language and is related to “anesthesia”〕 (αίσθημα), which means “perception/feeling by the senses”〔“aisthisi” (αίσθηση) can de derived from “aisthesia” (αίσθημα) and literally translated means senses.〕. The definition of the word “topographia” differs from topothesia. It is derived from the same word (“topos”), however, its Greek suffix “-graphia” means “description of” resulting in the meaning of topographia to be a “description of a real place”.
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