Literary notes about references (AI summary)
The term “references” in literature functions as a versatile tool for pointing readers to source material, lending authority, or highlighting intertextual connections. In historical and scholarly works, authors use references to indicate where specific ideas or facts were drawn from, as seen when ancient texts or authoritative works are cited—for example, in Burke’s critique of confused sources [1] and Macdonell’s discussion of Vedic literature [2]. In other cases, references serve to guide readers to further commentary or supportive notes, as when authors direct attention to specific pages or indexed details [3], [4], [5]. Authors may also employ the term in a more casual, even self-referential manner, as with brief mentions of personal work or anecdotal asides [6], [7], [8]. Thus, “references” in literature can denote carefully curated citations in academic texts or fleeting nods that enhance narrative texture, underscoring its role as a bridge between individual work and the broader tapestry of written knowledge.
- In the Appendix to the Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts the references were found to be confused, and, in many places, erroneous.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - Otherwise, however, their [ 193 ] references to the Atharva betray no greater regard for it than those in the Sacrificial Sūtras do.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - So also Whitaker Disputation on Scripture passim (see the references given above, p. 341, note 595 ).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - For other parts of speech than those indicated, see Word Formation, 116, 120, 159, 171, also the references under Prefixes and Suffixes in the Index.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed - [405] INDEX References are to Book and Section; all dates, given in parentheses (...), are b.c. Academicians.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero - What references could he give?
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - " I had made no references to my life; they now seemed superfluous!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - "Those references to myself——" "Those were what I liked next best.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
