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Instructions
Basic Instructions: explain how you define literature. must cite and respond to at least one of this week’s assigned readings or one of the quotations provided in the “Definitions of Literature and Poetry”.
Here are some questions you might use to brainstorm and organize your response:
What makes something “literature” as opposed to just “writing”?
What is literature for? In other word why does pretty much every culture have its
Most people believe that literature influences life-that in some perhaps mysterious way it helps to shape character. Do an internet search on the phrase “What is literature?”
Now, report on two different definitions you find, and then argue for your own definition of literature, giving reasons and examples to support your definition.
Most people believe that literature influences life-that in some perhaps mysterious way it helps to shape character. Do an internet search on the phrase “What is literature?”
Now, report on two different definitions you find, and then argue for your own definition of literature, giving reasons and examples to support your definition.