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Definition of Literature
Definition of Literature
My Answer:
Literature is a written or spoken text since it has different genres which either
made to be read such as: Fiction and short story or to be spoken such as: Poetry
and Drama.
This does not mean that other literal language (i.e., the ordinary language) is
totally be avoided in the literature but its usage will be partly.
Literature has to deal with human life by using of the writer's imagination to
shed led on the sides that cannot be recognize by the scientists. That means the
scope of literature in describing the human life is wider than the scientific
scope. If the text describes the life from a realistic perspective, it will be
scientific text while if the text uses the science and imagination to depict the life
that means it is literature. This because of the fact that the ability of imagination
in human beings is greater than the mental ability. Needless to say that doesn't
mean that literature is only imaginative work but it is mix of reason and
imagination.
And since the literature deals with human life in general, thus the literature is
universal not special for single group of people. It deals with the humans
regardless of their ethnic, religious and gender affiliation and even regardless of
their age. Literature in this sense deals with the human life anytime and
anywhere. So that literature doesn't deal with only English man to be English
literature but it is for any man thus it is universal. Literature doesn't especial for
adults since the children are human and located with the humanity