21st Century Literature

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2. LITERATURE
LITERATURE
- Is a body of
written works.
- Originated from
oral traditions.
- is a product of
particular culture that
concretizes man’s
array of values,
emotions, actions and
ideas.
- Are imaginative works.
a creation of human
experiences that tells
about people and their
world.

3. POINTERS OF LITERATURE
POINTERS OF LITERATURE
- Literature
portrays
human
experience.
- Authors
interpret these
human
experiences.
- It is an art
form and a
style of
expression.

4. IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE
IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE
•Studying literature is like looking at the mirror of life where
man’s experiences, his innermost feelings and thoughts are
reflected.
•Through literature, we learn the culture of people across time
and space.
• We understand not only the past life of a nation but also its
present.
• We become familiar not only with the culture of neighboring
countries but also with that of others living very far from us.

5. oUniversality
oArtistry
oIntellectual Value
oPermanence
oStyle
oSpiritual Value
oSuggestiveness

6. UNIVERSALITY
UNIVERSALITY
Great literature is timeless and
timely.
Forever relevant, it appeals to one
and all, anytime, anywhere, because it
deals with elemental feelings,
fundamental truths and universal
conditions.

7. ARTISTRY
ARTISTRY
This is the quality that
appeals to our sense of
beauty.

8. INTELLECTUAL VALUE
INTELLECTUAL VALUE
A literary works stimulates
thought. It enriches our
mental life by making us
realize fundamental truths
about life and human nature.

9. PERMANENCE
PERMANENCE
A great work of literature endures.
It can be read again and again as
each reading gives fresh delight and
new insights and opens a new world of
meaning and experience. Its appeal is
lasting.

10. STYLE
STYLE
This is the peculiar way in
which writers sees life, forms
his ideas and expresses
them.

11. SPIRITUAL VALUE
SPIRITUAL VALUE
Literature elevates the
spirit by bringing out moral
values which makes a better
persons.

12. SUGGESTIVENESS
SUGGESTIVENESS
Great literature moves us
deeply and stirs our feeling and
imagination, giving and evoking
visions above and beyond the
plane of ordinary life and
experience.

13. SUGGESTIVENESS
SUGGESTIVENESS
Great literature moves us
deeply and stirs our feeling and
imagination, giving and evoking
visions above and beyond the
plane of ordinary life and
experience.

14. oFormalistic or Literary Approach
oMoral or Humanistic Approach
oHistorical Approach
oSociological Aprroach
oCultural Approach
oPsychological Approach
oImpressionistic Approach

15. Formalistic or Literary
Approach
The study of the selection is
more or less based on the so-
called “literary elements”.

16. Moral or Humanistic Approach
- Literature is viewed to discuss
man and its nature.
- is close to the “morality” of
literature, to questions of ethical
goodness or badness.

17. Historical Approach
- Literature is viewed to discuss
man and its nature.
- is close to the “morality” of
literature, to questions of ethical
goodness or badness.

18. Sociological Approach
- Literature is viewed as the
expression of man within a given
social situation which is reduced to
discussions on economy which will
underscore the conflict between the
two classes- the rich and the poor.

19. Cultural Approach
- Literature is seen as one of the
manifestations and vehicles of a
nation’s or race’s culture and
tradition. It includes the entire
compels of what goes under “culture”

20. Psychological Approach
- Literature is viewed as the
expression of “personality,”

21. Psychological Approach
- Literature is viewed as the
expression of “personality,”

22. Impressionistic Approach
- Literature is viewed to elucidate
“reacting response” which is
considered as something very
personal, relative and fruitful.

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