"One cannot help feeling that its guardians sometimes miss the point of literature, which is not to cut gems of flashing and exquisite rarity but to communicate, to convey a meaning, an art, a story, a fantasy, even a mystery, to someone."
Literature is any collection of written work. The term is also used more narrowly for writings considered an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and enterta
"The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas."
Literature"In [[Soviet Union|Soviet [Union] times]], it was almost obligatory for authors of articles and books regardless of their subject matter to include a citation or two from Lenin and the current CPSU leader. That practice [had] largely disappeared along with the USSR, but in the last decade, the Vyorstka news agency says, Putin has brought it back, yet another revenant from the past."
Literature"I got a glimpse into the uses of a certain kind of criticism this past summer at a writers conference – into how the avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. I saw how it was possible to gain a chair of literature on no qualification other than persistence in nipping the heels of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck."
Literature"Literature is prophetic-life often lives up to fiction"
Literature"The only test of a work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own."
Literature"Literature is the question minus the answer."
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