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Generally, most people have their own ideas of what literature is.When enrolling in a literary course at university, you expect that everything on the reading list will be
“literature”.Similarly, you might expect everything by a known author to be literature, even though the quality of that author's work may vary from publication to publication.Perhaps you get an idea just from looking at the cover design on a book whether it is “literary” or “pulp”.Literature then, is a form of demarcation, however fuzzy, based on the premise that all texts are not created equal.Some have or are given more value than others.Etymologically, literature has to do with letters, the written as opposed to the spoken word, though not everything that is written down is literature.As a claification, it doesn't really have any firm boundary lines.There is recurring agreement amongst theorists though that for a work to be called literature must display excellence in form and style.Something may also be literary by aociation – that is, because V.S.Naipaul is a literary figure through his novels, his private letters are paed as literature as well.The common definition of literature, particularly for university courses, is that it covers the major genres of poetry, drama, and novel/fiction.The term also implies literary quality and distinction.This is a fairly basic view of literature because, as mentioned in the
introduction, the meaning of the term has undergone changes, and will no doubt continue to do so.Most contemporary literary histories show a shift from the belles-lettres tradition, which was concerned with finding beauty, an elevated use of language, emotional effects and moral sentiments before something could be called literature.The three main ways of approaching a definition of literature are relativism, subjectivism and agnosticism.With relativism, there are no value distinctions in literature;anything may be called good literature.Subjectivism, as the term implies, means that all theories of literary value are subjective, and that literary evaluation is a purely personal matter.Agnosticism follows from subjectivism, though it argues that though there may be real distinctions in literary value, our subjective value systems prevent us from knowing anything about the real values.Definitions of literature change because they describe and clarify a reality, they do not create the reality they describe.Or it may be that definitions tell us what we ought to think literature should be.At a dinner party you would be swiftly corrected if you referred to Mills & Boon as literature.This might occur for two reasons: the common perception of
literature as described by current definitions doesn't include ma-market romance novels;or Mills & Boon might well be literature, but contemporary definitions tell us it shouldn't be.The reason why we learn literature is that it is useful to look at some of the things that literature does.Literature is something that reflects society, makes us think about
ourselves and our society, allows us to enjoy language and beauty, it can be didactic, and it reflects on “the human condition”.It both reflects ideology and changes ideology, just like it follows generic conventions as well as changing them.It has social and political effects.Literature is the creation of another world, a world that we can only see through reading literature.
