Literature provides insights into human experiences and culture through stories, creative writing, and language. Studying literature stimulates critical thinking and allows readers to appreciate different perspectives. Literature has universal appeal across boundaries and endures over time through memorable expressions that convey fundamental truths about life. The study of literature has value through cultural, language, and personal growth models by helping understand other cultures, developing language skills, and finding lasting meaning through reading.

1. LITERATURE
By: Valerie L. Cruz

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.

4. Literary Standards
Universality
Literature appeals to
everyone, regardless of
culture, race, sex, and
time which are all
considered significant.

5. Artistry
Literature has an
aesthetic appeal and
thus possesses a
sense of beauty.

6. Intellectual Value
It
stimulate
critical
thinking that enriches
mental processes of
abstract and reasoning,
making man realize the
fundamental of truths
of life and its nature.

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.

8. Spiritual Value
Literature elevates the
spirit and the soul and
thus has the power to
motivate
and
to
inspire.

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

12. Cultural Model
Literature
aims
to
understand
and
appreciate cultures and
ideologies
different
from one’s own in time
and space.

13. Language Model
Literature
aims
to
promote
language
development
like
vocabulary
and
structure.

14. Personal Growth Model
Literature aims to help
one achieve lasting
pleasure
and
deep
satisfaction in reading.