What
is Literature?
Hello everyone,in this opportunity I will post about
definition of Literatur by expert.
Hope it is useful..
1.Henry van Dyke
1.Henry van Dyke
“Literature consists of those writing which interpret the
meanings of nature and life, in words of charm and power, touched with the
personality of the author, in artistic forms of permanent interest.”
2.Imam
Ja’far al-Sadiq (Muslim Scholar and Philosopher)
“Literature is the garment which one puts on
what he says or writes so that it may appear more attractiv.
3.Roman
Jakobson (Russian Formalist)
“Literature is organized violence committed on ordinary
speech”
4.Ezra Pound
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to
the utmost possible degree.”
5.Salman Rushdie
"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
not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the
heart."
6.G. K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
7.C. S.
Lewis
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply
describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires
and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have
already become."
8.Henry
Miller
“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things,
literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
9.Alfred North Whitehead
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of
humanity receives its expression."
10.E.M. Forster
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it
transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who
wrote."
Conclusion
Literartur is papers that consist of prose,poetry and drama
that can entertain the reader or audience and can change a person’s mood.
References:
http://classiclit.about.com/od/basicsliteratureintro/a/aa_literaturequ.htm
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