Literary notes about contemporary (AI summary)
The term “contemporary” in literary usage is often employed to emphasize a dual sense of simultaneity and relevance. It can denote that a person, event, or work is not only current within its own period—as when writers refer to individuals being interconnected by their lifetimes ([1], [2])—but can also underscore the immediacy of observations and accounts, lending an air of authenticity and firsthand insight ([3], [4]). At times, the word even extends to a metaphorical use where an event is portrayed as coexisting with itself, highlighting its inherent modernity ([5]). Overall, the word serves as a marker that the narratives, stylistic choices, or historical descriptions are firmly rooted in the contemporary conditions or sensibilities of their time ([6], [7], [8]).
- [86] Ion was a contemporary of Sophocles.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo - Theocritus, his contemporary, was a poet, orator, and historian; he was of the democratic party.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo - I am indebted to him for some facts and documents in John Hocsemius, canon of Liege, a contemporary historian, (Fabricius Bibliot.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - For the contemporary history of Egypt and Syria he seems Egypt and Syria. to have trusted principally to personal inquiry.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius - Similarly, the Battle of Waterloo may be said to have been “contemporary” with itself.] pg003½ § 2. Dichotomy.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - Contemporary light comedy employs this method in every shape and form.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - The manners of his countrymen are fairly delineated by a contemporary and national historian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - It is to its bishop, Possidius, we owe the contemporary Life of Augustine .
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
