Literary notes about contributor (AI summary)
The term "contributor" in literature has been used to denote both the act of adding one’s work to a larger collective and the individual’s role in shaping discourse across various media. In historical contexts, a contributor was often a regular writer whose prose, essays, or poems enriched periodicals and journals, as illustrated by Addison’s recurring essays on social life [1] and Edgar Allan Poe’s consistent input to the “Southern Literary Messenger” [2],[3]. The term also appears in religious and scholarly texts, where contributors added works that, in some cases, revealed the human imperfections inherent in sacred writings [4] or provided authoritative articles in specialized periodicals like medical reports [5]. Furthermore, literary giants such as James Joyce used the term in innovative ways, referring to occasional or singular contributions within narrative structures [6],[7]. Overall, these examples underscore the multifaceted role of the contributor—from the regular accentuation of public discourse in periodicals [8],[9],[10] to offering critical insights into major cultural and historical narratives [11].
- From that time Addison was a regular contributor, and occasionally other writers added essays on the new social life of England.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - He then was a resident of Richmond and a regular contributor to the “Southern Literary Messenger.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - He then was a resident of Richmond and a regular contributor to the “Southern Literary Messenger.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - Hence, the bible, or sacred book, to which he was a contributor, is now found to bear the marks of human imperfection.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - I then renewed my medical work at Bromberg, and continued it for twenty years, and was also a contributor to the 'General Homœopathic Periodical.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - Sllt. NOTED CHURCHMAN AN OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTOR The foreman handed back the galleypage suddenly, saying: —Wait.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - —You are the only contributor to Dana who asks for pieces of silver.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - This same personage was a contributor also of many pungent and humorous things in prose and verse in the columns of the Advocate itself.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - He was a frequent contributor to periodicals, and for some time edited Fraser's Magazine .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - He visited Belgium and Holland and in Berlin made valuable connections and became a regular contributor to several important newspapers.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - Every such man is a daily contributor to the inevitable downfall.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
