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literature and its meaning. The aestheticians, writers, critics and scholars hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience; it has a pattern of verbal substructure much more carefully modified than that of everyday language; it is this language that expresses the meaning of literature.
In a literal sense, the word literature means ‗things made from letters'. Literature is the source of human knowledge and the documentation of human experience. Literature helps to understand the world around us and preserves the morals of people.
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.
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.
The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), is examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English.
Literary analysis is at the core of this subject and refers to the task of making meaning of a work of literature. According to Kusch, the analysis of literature entails a responsibility because, as “a public form of meaning-making”, it is “designed to contribute to a community of knowledge about literature
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.
