What Is Literature?

In the text ?What is books? from Terry Eagleton, the author tries to explain the end point literature. He enumerates various definitions of it.

First he lines literature by making a distinction between fact and fiction. each(prenominal) works which are fiction, or also called imaginative paternity, plenty be called literature. In other words, this means that we can decide if a work is literary or not by its content. This explanation does not satisfy Eagleton because much real writing would not be included. as well some fancied works should not be called literary.

The next attempt to define literature is by its language and its form. The Russian formalists had a possibleness that literary works had to obey to certain rules to be called literature. The literary language was supposed to be language made freaky, that means it was not the language used in the routine speech. There was probably no one who thought at this time that the language would change over the years. Eagleton explains that literature (or poetry) depends on the time and the place you are in at the routine you are reading the piece. He also says that the form of a piece doesnt not decide if a work is literary or not, because a piece of writing may subtract off as history or philosophy and therefore come to be ranked as literature¦.



Also there are some works that belong to literature nowadays but which dont follow the rules the formalists initiated.

Eagleton enumerates various definitions of literature, but he finally rejects all of them. He asserts that literature does not constitute in the sense that insects do. He gives all the business to decide however an authors work is literature or not to the reader. If they decide that you are literature then it seems that...

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