meeting 1 literature an overview

By Arcci Tusita, M.Hum

It is creative work of art

Express the truth

Human contemplation

Communicate intellectual and

social ideas

Experience of life

(mimesis)

Choice

(language, structure)

System to value

(philosophy, history,

ideology)

Horatio: Literature should meet 2 functions

DULCE (to entertain)

serve beauty, give meaning to human’s life (misery, or joy),to bring

the readers into imaginary world

UTILE (to teach something)

a medium to convey virtues, to tell what is good and what is bad

• A medium for clarifying the meaning of experiences

literature

• Organize their own reaction to the experiences of life.

• Gain experiences, more critical.

• Have mature evaluation of life without having direct experience.

readers

Fruit of thought in actual living

Moral convention

literature

• Bring the experiences of ideas from different fields of study.

Cultured person

• A person can enhance his knowledge of fruit of thought and experience of life.

Aristotle: catharsis

• Increase the health in the soul through the expression of emotions

Freud: Sublimation

• “raising up” of instictual urges.

• Increased contemplation of beauty.

Fact

Life

What actually happen

Fiction

Imitation of life

What may happen

• The unity of each stucture to be a meaningful work.integrity

• Refers to certain uniqueness of each work.

• Each work is different in terms of individuating principle of beauty

individuation

• The proper proportion and relationships of the parts to one another and to the integrity of work

harmony

PROSE

POETRY

DRAMA