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Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined.
1. Literature as a procédure. Traditionally, literature is taken to be a body of writings. This will also be the view taken in this essay. However, one populär current ways of defining literature takes it to refer to a way of treating texts rather than a body of writings (3).
• What does one’s definition of “literature” reveal about one’s attitudes, beliefs, values, training, or socialization (in short, one’s ideological affiliation)? • How do definitions and categories of “literature” and espe-cially definitions of “good literature” coincide with specific
Literature, by forcing us into a dramatic awareness of language, refreshes these habitual responses and renders objects more 'perceptible'. By having to grapple with language in a more strenuous, self-conscious way than usual, the world which that language contains is vividly renewed.
Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.
The Concept of Literature: a Description and an Evaluation. Anders Pettersson. I. Introduction. There is a long-standing discussion about the concept of literature and its definition (or abolition, or revision) among students of literature and of literary aesthetics.
This article compares the bodies of literature derived from systematic and other types of review, which the author labels conceptual, and examines problems associated with different approaches to...
Fowler’s seminal Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. Bringing together original entries written by such celebrated theorists as Terry Eagleton and Malcolm Bradbury with new definitions of current terms and controversies, this is the essential reference book for students of literature at all levels. This book includes:
THE NATURE OF LITERATURE. I. From time out of mind critics have endeavored without. success to define literature. They have all been more or. less able to describe it; they have all been fairly well agreed. as to many of its chief characteristics; they have seldom.
Information. The Definition of Literature and Other Essays , pp. 1 - 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552854.003. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 1982. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.