meeting 1 literature an overview
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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