Editing Literary topos (section)

== Lists of themes ==
Some examples of topoi are the following:

* the [[locus amoenus]] (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno);
* the [[idyll]]
* cemetery poetry (see the Spoon River Anthology);
* love and death (in Greek, eros and thanatos), love as disease and love as death, (see the character of Dido in Virgil's Aeneid);
* warlike love (see the work Stanze per la giostra by Giuliano de 'Medici by Angelo Poliziano), love as homage (see the courtly lyric poem), painful love;
* the world upside down;
* the dangerous night;
* the infernal hunt (see Boccaccio's Decameron, day 5, novel 8);
* [[aphasia]], for example in the presence of the beloved woman (see the works belonging to the Dolce stil novo current, for example Al cor gentil rempaira semper amore by Guido Guinizelli);
* the descensus ad inferos, or [[Katabasis|catàbasis]] in Greek (see Dante's entire Inferno, or the Aeneid, in his sixth book);
* the desperate search for something, or quête in French;
* the [[Golden Age|golden age]];
* The [[nostos]]: the return trip to the homeland (e.g. the ''[[Odyssey]]'')
* the paraclausithyron, lament before the closed door of the lover;
* the commutatio loci;
* elixir of eternal youth;
* the [[Fountain of Youth]];
* the topos modestiæ;
* pretending that the work is inspired or translated by a [[pseudobiblion]] (e.g. ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' or ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'').
* [[Hybris (mythology)|Hybris]]