what is literature?

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English

 

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Isaac J

 

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October 14, 2015

 

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The second reason resides in the different perspectives upon which different literary theories have based their views about literature. This paper is, therefore, an attempt to shed light on the indeterminacy of the concept "literature" by explaining and extending on these two main reasons. To begin with, the concept of "literature", originated from the Latin word "littera", was introduced into English in the fourteenth century...
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In its beginning, it was not vague or indeterminate as in its modern use. It was used then to refer to "a condition of reading: of being able to read and of having read" (Williams, Marxism and Literature, 46). Hence, it was used to have a meaning similar to that of "literacy", which was coined and introduced into English in early nineteenth century when the concept "literature" was developed and got a different sense...
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