Literary notes about Emergence (AI summary)
The word emergence plays a multifaceted role in literature, often signaling a process of coming into being or a revealing transformation. It is used to mark the arrival of a presence—be it a visitor observed from a cottage ([1]) or the symbolic birth of a new idea, such as a universal logic or language ([2]). In many texts, emergence captures moments of creative and natural transition; it can denote the unveiling of artistic genius in poetry ([3]), the delicate unfolding of nature—from the stirring of bees ([4]) to the geological rise of land from the ocean ([5])—or even the reawakening of life after hibernation ([6]). Furthermore, the term is applied to socio-political contexts, illustrating shifts in power or the advent of modern institutions ([7],[8]). Across these varied contexts, emergence becomes a powerful metaphor for both literal and figurative transformation, articulating the dynamic interplay between continuous change and defined new beginnings.
- From these posts of observation, commanding almost the whole of the surroundings of the cottage, they looked for the emergence of the visitor.
— from No Man's Island by Herbert Strang - One would almost expect the emergence of a universal logic and a universal language (attempts were and are made to facilitate such a universalism).
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin - ches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - As the weather grows warmer, and the colony increases in size by the emergence of the young bees, the quantity of brood is increased.
— from Bees by Everett Franklin Phillips - There lies the fresh land, fresh—so geologists say of Australia—as it came up at its last emergence from the ocean.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 403, May, 1849 by Various - The hibernating period of the marmot begins in September and lasts well into spring, the time of emergence is usually late in April.
— from Mammals of Mount Rainier National Park by Russell K. Grater - The emperor was compelled to appeal to the Protestant princes to coöperate in this great emergence.
— from The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - With the emergence of the capitalistic system, opportunities for investment increased, and money assumed the role of a factor of production.
— from Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles J. (Charles Jerome) Callan
