Literary notes about Recreate (AI summary)
The term "recreate" in literature has been employed to denote both a renewal of inner faculties and a revival of past experiences. For instance, Wilde speaks of the hope to "recreate my creative faculty," suggesting an inward renewal of artistic energy [1], while Proust uses it to illustrate the way memory can both mask and reconstruct the elusive textures of experience [2]. Moreover, the term stretches to include the reinvention of social selfhood and cultural tradition, as seen in Joyce’s call to "recreate life out of life" [3] and in Emerson’s comparison with a bygone era that no modern force can replenish [4]. Even in historical and philosophical texts, like Durkheim’s argument regarding societal ideals that allow a community to recreate itself [5], and Marcus Aurelius’s exhortation to reconnect with one’s origins [6], "recreate" underscores the transformative processes that time and memory impose on both individual identity and collective history.
- After that, I hope to be able to recreate my creative faculty.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde - We come to its aid; we falsify it by memory and by suggestion; recognising one of its symptoms we recall and recreate the rest.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life!
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - A society can neither create itself nor recreate itself without at the same time creating an ideal.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - Return then frequently to your true mother, and recreate yourself with her.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
