Literary notes about author (AI summary)
In literature, the term "author" plays a multifaceted role that extends far beyond simply naming the writer of a text. It is employed to designate the creative mind responsible for a work—as seen when a character questions his own role as the author of grim memories [1] or when works are explicitly attributed to their creators [2]. The label also serves as a marker of authority and expertise in historical and scholarly contexts, such as when the author of a critical observation is cited to support a broader argument [3] or when authors are invoked to lend credibility to narratives of discovery and adventure [4]. Additionally, the word can imply a complex relationship between the creator and his creation, highlighting both the personal touch in literary expression and the critical distance that invites readers to evaluate ideas, as noted in discussions of an author's intended meaning versus public interpretation [5] and [6].
- "Why do you call to my remembrance," I rejoined, "circumstances, of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been the miserable origin and author?
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The author produced also five plays, and a volume of Poems and Essays, with a Paraphrase on Cicero's Lælius in Heroic Verse.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The negative opinion maintained by our author, is now almost universally adopted, particularly by Mm. Niebuhr, Hugo, and others.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift - As for any farther particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift - But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was without genius, etc.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen
