2. Why do we need to study
literature?
“There have been great societies that
did not use the wheel, but there have
been no societies that did not tell
stories.” ---Ursula K. LeGuin
“You cannot appreciate something you
don’t understand.”
3. Literature
•• provides insights and intellectual
a
collection
of
human
stimulation to the reader. about
experiences that tells
people and their world.
•
discovering
literature
is
discovering language. the works
• an art that reflects
of imagination, aesthetics and
•creative writing. particular culture
a product of
that concretizes man’s array of
values, emotions, actions and
ideas.
7. Suggestiveness
It unravels man’s emotional power to
define symbolism, nuances, implied
meanings, images and messages, giving
and evoking visions above and beyond
the plane of ordinary life and experience.
9. Permanence
Literature endures across time and draws
out the time factor:
Timeliness – occurring at a particular time.
Timelessness
–
remaining
invariable
throughout time.
10. Style
Literature
presents
peculiar ways on how
man
sees
life
as
evidence
by
the
formation of his ideas,
form, structures, and
expressions which are
marked
by
their
memorable substance.
11. LITERARY MODELS
The study of literature appeals in
different aspects and importance.
• Cultural Model
• Language Model
• Personal Growth Model