What is Literature ?

 What is Literature ?

" Literature  consist of the those writing which interpret the meaning of nature and life , in words of charm and power , touched with the personality of the author , in artistic forms of the permanent interest " .
                    

                                                               - By , Henry Van Dyke 

" literature is where i go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit , where i hope to find absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart". 

                                                              - By Salman Rushdie   

 

 Here i would like to  discuss about the my  point of view about      

          " What  is Literature " ? 

 

- Literature is different from other writings.Literature is one of the fine arts in which literary writer uses language as the medium for expression of ideas and feelings.

- Literature is made of many works of the art in different literary forms as well as  literary criticism.

- In other words literature consists of creative writing and also critical writing.

- Literature is broadly classified under two categories . They are  1) Fictional Literature and 2) Non- Fictional Literature .

- Sometimes literature is classified  as literature of  power and literature of knowledge .

- Sometimes critics talk about descriptive literature and narrative literature.

- The Writers selects a particular  literary  forms to express his ideas or feelings .

- The literary forms are novel , Short-stories , novella , poetry , that including song , lyrics , epic , sonnet , ode, Ballad , etc.

- Literature maybe in the Drama forms including ; Tragedy , Comedy , Tragic- Comedy Etc.

- Sometimes literature is the divided  under two types as : Prose Literature , and Poetry Literature .

- The Literature Writer Offers Specifics design through his work also . The writers try to make his work classical by using various devise or techniques.

- The literary works indirectly teaches mankind of wisdoms. Moreover , each works deals with basic human values as well  as emotion of the common people .

- The language of literature is ornamental and poetics. Literature writings creates our interest in aesthetics . Literature gives us sense of beauty and at the same time it helps our upliftment.

- Literary piece comments upon human life and human relationship.

 According to me Importance of the literature :

  -   Literature is the important for the many reasons , including its ability to provide pleasure to readers to help readers empathize with other and to develop the thinking the skills. While  Literature educational importance is the often  downplay is favor of business and technical educations , the study  of the books offers many positive benefits  to readers .

 Here i would like to discuss about the concept of the literariness : 

-  The literariness refers to  the unique quality with which each literary work is marked.  It is vague concept perhaps because in any work of art many things together become literariness .

- We can say that total effects of a literary piece is literariness. The writes uses various poetic devices while writers a works of art .

- All these devise add to the literariness of a work .Similarly the style of the writers is use of language , the selection of the lexical words to creates specific atmosphere in his writing all these go with literariness.

- " Reality speaking , literariness distinguishes a work of art from other writings.

WHY IS LITERATURE IMPORTANT? 

Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author writes or says, and how he or she says it. We may interpret and debate an author's message by examining the words he or she chooses in a given novel or work or observing which character or voice serves as the connection to the reader.

In academia, this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of literary theory ​using a mythological, sociological, psychological, historical, or other approaches to better understand the context and depth of a work.

Works of literature, at their best, provide a kind of blueprint of human civilization. From the writings of ancient civilizations like Egypt, and China, to Greek philosophy and poetry;  from the epics of Homer to the plays of Shakespeare, from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to Maya Angelou, works of literature give insight and context to all the world's societies. 

Whatever critical paradigm we use to discuss and analyze it, literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it is universal, and it affects us on a deeply personal level. Even when it is ugly, literature is beautiful.

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