Literary notes about Persona (AI summary)
In literature, the term persona functions both as a legal and a theatrical concept, embodying a range of meanings from abstract constitutional roles to the mask or character one presents publicly. In legal texts, for instance, persona is used to articulate the idea of an entity’s rights and obligations, as seen in discussions of joint tenancy or inheritance rights ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, narrative works employ the term to evoke an individual’s outward presentation or even a specific character role within society, from depicting isolated modernity ([4]) to celebrating the charm of a socially favored figure ([5], [6]). Such usage draws on its classical roots as a mask worn by actors, reinforcing the notion that an individual’s outward identity is often a performance in its own right ([7]).
- Privity between them follows as an accidental consequence of their being as one tenant, and sustaining a single persona between them.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - But the heir's persona was not even the sum of all the ancestor's rights and duties in connection with real estate.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - In this case several individuals together continued the persona of their ancestor.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Con el mundo en la punta de los dedos, ¿y por consecuencia, no es el internauta la persona más sola del mundo?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - Senora mia, mi persona esta muy indigna de allegar a tanta hermosura.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson - I was soon a persona grata with the excellent musicians of the orchestra.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - (3) Personality as the rôle of the individual in the group: The word personality is derived from the Latin persona , a mask used by actors.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
