Literary notes about models (AI summary)
The term "models" in literature is employed in a variety of nuanced ways, often serving as a stand-in for idealized examples, replicas, or patterns for imitation in art, behavior, and design. Some authors use "models" to denote historical or classical standards, such as looking back to medieval paradigms or Greek prototypes ([1], [2]), while others use it to indicate literal physical representations—whether discussing architectural facsimiles ([3], [4]) or anatomical replicas ([5]). In educational and moral contexts, models become exemplars for conduct and creative composition, as seen in examples where characters or works of art serve as blueprints for emulation ([6], [7], [8]). Even in more abstract or metaphorical treatments, "models" can symbolize the ideal that guides transformation and progress, linking nature, truth, and culture ([9], [10]). Overall, this multifaceted usage underscores the term’s central role as both a literal and figurative point of reference in literature.
- Both protested against the materialism of the age, and both went back for their models to the Middle Ages.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - But they are so greatly dependent on their Greek models that they are unsafe guides in this matter.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - Later models employed a cloth bag suspended from the rim of the pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The church at Asti, begun in 1229, suggests German models by its high side walls and narrow windows. invisible .
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Anatomical models, 270 .
— from A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest Mason Satow - ‘Why,’ said you, ‘are those the patterns we are to follow, the models set for our imitation!
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Make 'em your models, my dear.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - I only wish that we were true even to this; for, even as it is, it is drawn from the excellent models which Nature and Truth afford.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero - Then how is it that they have taken from society the models upon which they have been constructed?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
