Literary notes about Converse (AI summary)
In literature the term "converse" takes on multifaceted roles. Authors often use it to depict the act of exchanging dialogue—whether in intimate character interactions or reflective self-talk—as when a character seeks a quiet place to converse with a companion [1, 2, 3]. At other times the word appears in a more abstract or formal context, representing a logical or philosophical inversion, as in phrases discussing the converse of a proposition [4, 5, 6]. Its versatile deployment can evoke the refined etiquette of social discourse or serve as a device to explore oppositional ideas, demonstrating both the literal and figurative dimensions of communication [7, 8, 9].
- I would speak with you,' said he, 'I have much to say; conduct me to where we may converse.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - ‘Stay,’ said the old man, beckoning him into a bye street, where they could converse with less interruption.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - But every moment that I converse with you steals in some new grace, heightens the picture, and gives it stronger expression.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith - Don’t you see that the converse is equally valid.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Let us take, next, the Pair of Converse Propositions “No x are m ” = “No m are x .”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - Let us take, first, the Pair of Converse Propositions “Some x are m ” = “Some m are x .”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - This, according to your idea and mine of poetry, I feel to be false-the less poetical the critic, the less just the critique, and the converse.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Yet it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - In a word, we must be in that mood which, as nearly as possible, is the exact converse of the poetical.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
