Literary notes about PLACE (AI summary)
In literature, the term “place” functions both as a tangible locale and a symbolic marker of position or status. It can denote a fixed physical setting that anchors a character’s experience—as when someone remains “in the same place” ([1]) or occupies a specific address that hints at social identity ([2]). At the same time, “place” conveys abstract roles or shifts in circumstance, urging a character to assume their proper stance ([3]) or marking the site where pivotal events occur ([4], [5]). This duality enables authors to weave together the external geography of their narratives with the internal landscapes of memory, aspiration, and transformation ([6], [7], [8]).
- Emelyanoushka went on sitting in the same place.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - They are at No. 1 Henrietta Street, the corner of Laura Place, and have no acquaintance at present but the Bramstons.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen - "Take the place and attitude which belong to you," says Emerson, "and all men acquiesce.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - I The Curtain lifts on a place that is dark, save for a shaft of light from below which comes up through an open trap-door in the floor.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell - Somehow the place soothed me and put me at my ease.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - “Within two leagues of this place, at the inn of the Red Dovecot.”
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - Time, place from which, place to which, are all given.
— from Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
