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What Is Literature? A paraphrase, summary, and adaptation of the opening chapter of Terry Eagleton's Introduction to Literary Theory. Species fact or fiction? Are news reports fact or fiction? (2) What is clearly imaginative writing is often not considered literature.
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Jan 1, 1997 · Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined.
On this theory, literature is a kind of writing which, in the words of the Russian critic Roman Jacobson, represents an 'organized violence committed on ordinary speech'. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
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concentrating on some fundamental questions about literature and its contexts: i. Does literature refer to or correspond to something outside texts? What sort of ‘truth’ does literature aim towards? ii. What mental process—the writer’s or reader’s—contributes to the production of literary texts? iii. To what extent are texts ...
Historical Fiction: A made-up story that is based on a real time and place in history, so fact is mixed with fiction. Myth: A traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine, or cultural belief. The gods and goddesses of mythology have supernatural powers, but the human characters usually do not.
Literary Techniques are specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases. This is also called a figure of speech.
Alphabetical Listing of Every Literary Technique You’ll Ever Need for Stage 6 (and Many More You Won’t) All definitions from Cuddon, JA 1998, Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory, 4th edn, Penguin Group, Great Britain. Prepared by Damian Morris . Accumulation – A listing of words embodying similar qualities
