Literary notes about transformative (AI summary)
The term "transformative" is employed across various literary contexts to denote a process of profound change or evolution. In some works, it characterizes an influence that can reshape foundational ideas or practices, such as when food is described as having an adaptively transformative influence [1] or when a reversed trend is considered even transformative in impact [2]. Other texts use the term more conceptually, referring to underlying principles like the transformative law of energies [3] or the shift in salient features of a musical motif [4]. Additionally, transformative is used to evaluate the nature of authority or justification in intellectual debates [5], to capture the evolving nature of emotions and mental processes [6], [7], and to contrast perspectives in literary figures' treatment of love's power [8]. Finally, the word extends its reach into models of practice and scientific theory, as seen in discussions of advanced nursing [9] and evolutionary science [10].
- Surely at least the unclear conception of an adaptively transformative influence of food must be discarded.
— from On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation by August Weismann - Stopping and then reversing that tide would be valuable, even transformative, but other issues are a closer call.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle - Transformative law of the energies, 172 .
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach - More transformative still, therefore, are those devices which actually shift the accents of the motif, its most salient and identifying features.
— from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason - "I believe the answer to the question of justification turns primarily on whether, and to what extent, the challenged use is transformative.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle - EXAMPLE V.—Of the transformative powers of Love, under condition of Proximity.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various - Let us consider such a mental transformative process in detail.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach - Shelley has, however, an advantage over Nietzsche in his recognition of the transformative power of love.
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys - The circle of caring: A transformative model of advanced practice nursing.
— from Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice by Savina O'Bryan Schoenhofer - Transformative heredity—or the transmission of acquired characters—is one of the most important principles in evolutionary science.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward