Literary notes about mode (AI summary)
The term mode functions in literature as a multifaceted concept that can denote a manner, method, or style. It is used to describe not only concrete procedures—such as methods of warfare, legal proceedings, or taxation ([1], [2], [3])—but also abstract ways of living, reasoning, or expressing oneself ([4], [5], [6]). Authors employ it to contrast approaches within cultural practices and personal behaviors, for instance when shifting from one style of discourse to another ([7], [8]), or when delineating a particular approach to life or thought ([9], [10]). Mode, therefore, serves as a key term bridging tangible actions and intangible attitudes across various literary contexts ([11], [12]).
- Following out the African mode of warfare, they glided along the side of the walls, and then, with a run, they threw themselves upon the barricade.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - The order of suits and similar details we shall leave to the lawgivers of the future, and only determine the mode of voting.
— from Laws by Plato - This mode of taxation, it has already been observed, when applied to objects of a speedy consumption, is not a very convenient one.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - I set myself with befitting energy to discharge the duties of this new mode of life.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - For experience itself is a mode of cognition which requires understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The preponderance of either mode of viewing life not only determines single acts; it shapes a man's whole nature and temperament.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - “You will see,” he said, “that I have shifted the question from the mode of egress to that of ingress.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - “And do you really know all this?” cried Mrs. Gardiner, whose curiosity as to the mode of her intelligence was all alive.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - This is the mode of life prescribed for women alike by nature and reason.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Ye are without a particular Asrama (mode of life).
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - Thus, the mixed mode which the word LIE stands for is made of these simple ideas:—(1)
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke - For to the two sisters called Ocellatae, he gave liberty to choose the mode of death which they preferred, and banished (486) their paramours.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
