Literature and Ideas

YADGAR ISMAIL
Literature and Ideas

 Demonstrate aesthetic responsiveness and interpretive ability.

 Explores different ideas expressed or reflected in literature.
 Humble judgments about literature.
 Literature is to give ideas, it is to give pleasure.
 Read critically and intelligently in order to expand your understanding and ideas.
 Aim is unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of
fiction used by the author to tell the story.
 The central idea can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal,
generic truth found in the story.
Literature and Ideas vs Literature of ideas

 LI determines and explains the relations between ideas and literature. Ideas are either
literary or non-literary.
 Loi is science fiction. Named as such as it offers great deal of information on various
topic.
* Science fiction is often called the “literature of ideas.” Sci-fi novels include a wide variety
of futuristic concepts. Since they're so imaginative, anything is possible, especially in soft sci-
fi novels.
Where do ideas come from?

 Past Work Experience

 Hobbies and Interests
 Strengths and Abilities
 Friends and Family
 Distribution Channels
 Travel
 Books and Magazines
 Current Trends
Reality vs copy

 What does reality mean in literature?

 : a real event, entity, or state of affairs. his dream became a reality. (2) : the totality of real
things and events. trying to escape from reality.
 Copy in literature is rather related to representation. What is how represented?
Representation

 'representation' is commonly defined in three ways. To look like or resemble.

 To stand in for something or someone. To present a second time; to re-present.
Representation and Mimesis

 Reading literary texts with accurate representation helps us to understand how we see the
world, and why we see the world the way we do.
 It allows us to see the world through the eyes of somebody else.
 This creates a community where we acknowledge our shared humanity, and our
experiences and respect our differences.
 Example:
 You can describe a picture, model, or statue of a person or thing as a representation of
them.
Mimesis

 Mimesis is a term used in philosophy and literary criticism.

 It describes the process of imitation or mimicry through which artists portray and interpret
the world.
 Mimesis is not a literary device or technique, but rather a way of thinking about a work of
art.
 Mimesis is the imitation of life in art and literature. You know your painting exhibits
mimesis when the viewers try to pick the flowers from the canvas. You've probably heard
that life imitates art. Well, when art imitates life, it's mimesis.
Plato and Mimesis

 For Plato mimesis is the appearance of the external image of things

 In his view, reality was not to be found in the world of objects but in the realm of Ideas.
 Therefore, Plato sees the arts as an occupation that is inferior to science and philosophy,
but that is also a potential source of corruption.
* According to Plato's theory of mimesis (imitation) the arts deal with illusion and they are
imitation of an imitation. Thus, they are twice removed from reality. As a moralist, Plato
disapproves of poetry because it is immoral, as a philosopher he disapproves of it because it is
based in falsehood.
 Is stream of consciousness related to REFLECTION OR MIRRORING