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concentrating on some fundamental questions about literature and its contexts: i. Does literature refer to or correspond to something outside texts? What sort of ‘truth’ does literature aim towards? ii. What mental process—the writer’s or reader’s—contributes to the production of literary texts? iii. To what extent are texts ...
in the literature as well as most of the published materials which claim to follow a meaning-focused approach, the meaning which is focused on is denotative meaning (i.e. the literal, explicit meaning of a lexical item; the referent it ...
Literature is not just written, but also oral in the form. It is a form of art; it is known for its suggestiveness and its permanence; its universal interest and its individual style. What is Literature? A Definition Based on Prototypes. Literature is the foundation of humanity's cultures, beliefs, and traditions.
Meaning, Expression, and the Interpretation of Literature ABSTRACT I argue that when we interpret a literary work, we engage with at least two different kinds of meaning, each requiring a distinct mode of interpretation. These kinds of meaning are literary varieties of what Paul Grice called nonnatural and natural meaning.
Its plain implication, that literature has different levels of meaning, was made the basis of a systematic development of criticism in the Middle Ages, and a precise scheme of four levels of meaning-the literal, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogic-was worked out and adopted by many great medieval writers, notably Dante.
An introduction to the study of English Literature, including discussions of: how to define "literature", why study literature?, how to approach the great books, and English literary periods.
Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories: The Elusive Self grew out of a project focusing on how issues of identity are presented in different types of narratives, based at Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
