Introduction to Literature -Lecture (1)
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This document discusses the definition and purpose of literature. It notes that not all written works are considered literature, and identifies two types that are: writings that describe feelings or experiences, and imaginary writings that create fictional worlds. Literature is defined as the art of creative writing, including poetry, drama, fiction and some non-fiction. The purpose of literature is to represent experiences and record feelings, as well as provide pleasure through well-told stories, poems, and dramas. An excerpt from a poem is included as an example.
Introduction to Literature -Lecture (1)
- 3. Not all what is written is consider literature because there are many kinds of written works that aren’t treated as literary texts.
- 6. 2 kinds of writings can be treated as literary works: Writings that Writings that describe the can bee seen as writer’s feelings imaginary about someone literature in or object. which a writer For example: creates an “You always had a imaginary world place in my heart of his own. It was there just For example: for you” The Lord of the Rings story
- 10. The word is commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama , fiction and non- fiction
- 11. Literature is the art of written works.
- 12. Literature is a mirror of life. We can get the touch of our life, our culture and other people’s experiences.
- 13. What kind of purpose does literature serve?
- 14. The Purpose of Literature: As a As a representat recorder ion of of experience feelings
- 15. Art
- 16. Literature belongs to fine art. It uses words as its medium. Words have to be arranged and rearranged to produce effects on readers
- 18. Pleasure comes from a tale well told, a poem beautifully phrased or a drama well structured.
- 22. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
- 23. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said, "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."
- 24. And so he was quiet; and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, - That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.