What is Literature?

In the technical sense, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�literature카지노 게임 컬렉션� is anything that is written. That isn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t much help, is it?

Literary studies defines its field not as 카지노 게임 컬렉션�anything that is written,카지노 게임 컬렉션� but anything that is written in an 카지노 게임 컬렉션�artistic카지노 게임 컬렉션� fashion, meaning that what it has to say might not be directly expressed, but rather that its content cannot be conveyed outside of its particular form.

This course will offer students ways of reading that attend to the interactions of form and content. One way of thinking about this aspect is that it strives to answer the question 카지노 게임 컬렉션�How does Literature work?카지노 게임 컬렉션�

We will also ask the question, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�What does literature do?카지노 게임 컬렉션�

It both teaches and delights, said the Roman poet, Horace. But what does it teach while entertaining us? Literature has always engaged with the culture that produces it, reinforcing or questioning values. We should also ask how literature produces culture.

The most important question to ask is probably, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Why is Literature?카지노 게임 컬렉션� No society has ever not had a literary forms카지노 게임 컬렉션�be it oral storytelling, song, poetry, drama or prose fiction. We seem to need it.

This course will: examine a wide variety of literary forms; attend to the nuts and bolts of literary expression; introduce the practice of close reading that stands behind literary analysis; consider the implications of literature in the world in which we live.