Literary notes about rupture (AI summary)
The term "rupture" assumes a versatile role in literary language, often conveying both tangible breaks and metaphorical separations. In some works, it is used to describe physical breaches such as the bursting of vessels or fractures in natural objects ([1], [2]), while in other contexts it signifies a decisive split in relationships, political alliances, or intellectual traditions ([3], [4], [5]). Authors also exploit the notion of rupture to emphasize disruptions in continuity or to mark the transition between eras or ideas ([6], [7]). Thus, the word serves as a powerful symbol for both the breakdown of physical entities and the fracturing of abstract bonds.
- In some cases one or more of these distended veins may rupture and form a blood tumor in the external ear canal.
— from Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter - Swelling proceeds rapidly and can become so great as to rupture the skin.
— from Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Ray D. Burkett - If you go to the ball to-night, it must be at the cost of a definite rupture between us.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - The rupture between Alexander VII. and Louis XIV. was healed in 1664, by the treaty signed at Pisa, on February 12th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys - And, not only that, there's a fresh danger of an international rupture.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman - Here was a breach of continuity--a rupture in historical sequence!
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - Not till then does nature attain her artistic jubilee; not till then does the rupture of the principium individuationis become an artistic phenomenon.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
