2007-01-24 05:59:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A world of knowledge brought to you by the great of the greats such as Cervantes, Chaucer, Voltaire, Burns, Wordsworth, Byron, Dickens, Tolstoy, Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats, Hemingway. Reading literature not only brings pleasure, but we may want to escape the four walls that surround us. It serves as a jet airplane that speeds us away from ourselves into the worlds of other people.
2007-01-24 06:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by Nancy S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I look at Literature as defining a section of study which entails the use of written words. Literature also defines things that were important enough for people of a society to put into written words.
2007-01-24 14:18:17 · answer #2 · answered by sugarpacketchad 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the context. For me literature is a work of fiction that is written with the intent to create something with unique value, and highest possible quality. Or in other words, art. Not just a product that will sell based on a formula that has worked in the past, but something that has intrinsic value based on the level of technical mastery and the degree of creativity and talent that is evident in the work.
2007-01-24 14:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by martin h 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Literature is the art of books and the study of those books.
Hope this helps.
2007-01-24 14:02:49 · answer #4 · answered by x q 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think of poetry, the classics, etc.
I do not categorize today's modern books (Stephen King, Nora Roberts...) as literature. To me, literature is the classics (Poe, Shakespeare, Michener, Dickens).
2007-01-25 13:50:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put on paper, and some English teacher who thinks he's god/philosophical will at some point actually ask you to write a paper for him about the meaning of literature. Personally it's my view that teacher are using students to assist in there quest for higher education such as a theseus and crap like that.
2007-01-24 14:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by chapman_red 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Literature" means written words, ideas, pages, and books to me.
English Literature to me means limericks, lyrics, poems, prose, riddles, stories, tales, and verse. From Beowulf to Bede, Chaucer to Langland, and Kempe to Dunbar.
2007-01-24 14:16:45 · answer #7 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
literature equals knowledge, travel, new experience, better understandig of people
2007-01-24 14:07:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mirela 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
...an intellectually constructed path leading toward an inner-vision built upon the most correct words that convey such imagery as intended...
2007-01-24 14:04:18 · answer #9 · answered by donkey hotay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
intricately placed words on a piece of paper to create something
2007-01-24 14:02:36 · answer #10 · answered by froggy_dimebag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋