This document discusses the evolving definition of "literature" over the last 50 years. Traditionally, literature referred to imaginative writing that was not factual, but many classical works were also non-fiction. The document argues that what makes a text "literary" is subjective and dependent on how people relate to it. It was traditionally based on language use but this excluded many texts. The literary "canon" was constructed by those in power to include mainly works by white European males, marginalizing other groups. There is no objective value or essence to literary works and their status changes over time based on changing social contexts and readers.
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Fundamentals of Literature
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Fundamentals of Literature
Compiled by: Belachew Weldegebriel (bellachew@gmail.com)
Jimma University
CSSH
Department of English Language and Literature
1.1 Definition of Literature
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Fundamentals of Literature
The Concept of Literature
By Belachew Weldegebriel
Jimma University
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of English Language and Literature
Jimma, Ethiopia
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4. What do we mean when we say
something is “Literary”?
“Some texts are born literary, some
achieve literariness, and some have
literariness thrust upon them.”
5. Is literature dictated by
context?
I’m your teacher. I have several college
degrees. If I tell you it’s LITERATURE,
am I to be believed?
Many works of “literature” that we study
in college were constructed to BE
literature, but many were not.
7. Language
Literature transforms
and intensifies
ordinary language
Literature deviates
systematically from
everyday speech
Language in
literature draws
attention to itself
--This is what the
FORMALISTS
thought--Russians in
the early 1900s who
organized literary
criticism around
language
8. When “Language” is the only
criteria of “literary”, what types
of texts are ignored?
Should these types of texts be
ignored? Why? Why Not?
9. The problem with language. . .
“The idea that there is a single, ‘normal’
language, a common currency shared equally
by all members of society, is an illusion. Any
actual language consists of a highly complex
range of discourses, differentiated according to
class, region, gender, status and so on, which
can by no means be neatly unified into a single
homogeneous linguistic community.”
--Terry Eagleton, literary critic and scholar
10. What happens when one
language is preferred over
another?
Can language reveal your: class,
race, ethnicity, educational level,
gender?
11. If literature were only based on
how language were used
Everything would be poetry.
What other qualities can we look at that
might help us to define the “literariness”
of a text?
12. The truth is:
If “they” (the critics,
scholars etc) say
you’re literature,
then you are!
If “they” say you
aren’t, then you
aren’t!
“Literature” is a
formal, empty sort of
definition.
“Literature” has no
“essence.”
“Literature” is
dependent upon the
way people relate
themselves to the
writing.
13. Literature is Subjective
Since the 1980’s, the “literary canon” of
works--a group of works “agreed upon”
to be “the best” by well-known scholars
and critics, has been disputed
14. Why do you think the “canon”
was disputed?
And who forwarded the charge of
dispute?
15. The “Canon” excluded most
works that were not by white,
European males
Works of literature by women,
homosexuals, and works by
individuals of varied races, classes
and ethnicities were marginalized
16. How did this happen?
There are many ways of “writing”--but
those in power recognized only one,
formal way of “writing,” and this was
given the higher value
Thus, the literary “canon” is a construct;
it was fashioned by particular people for
particular reasons at a particular time.
17. There is no literary work or
tradition that has value in and of
itself
Even Shakespeare!
18. In his era, Shakespeare was
regarded as a hack!
It’s true! Time and circumstance has
offered the value to particular texts; and
this “value” is a transitive term--it will
change as the people in power change
and are altered, and according to the
context of the reading of a particular text.
19. 10 Years Ago
BLOGS were stupid. NOW:
Iraq War Veterans BLOGS are
considered vital historic and
“literary” documents!
20. Revisioning the Canon:
All “literary” works are
unconsciously rewritten by the
societies that read them.
21. Context:
Readers interpret literary works in the
light of their own concerns
Readers interpret literary works in the
light of a given circumstance
Readers interpret literary works in the
light of a given time period
23. HOWL by Allen Ginsberg
BANNED in its era. . .
LITERATURE? Or not?
24. “I Have A Dream”--
Is this speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Literature? Or Not?
25. Literature and “value”
You see, each of us is
constructed of
experiences and
backgrounds and
emotions and ideas
and prejudices and
knowledge and lack
of knowledge. . .
How we each
respond to a
particular text is
deeply entwined with
our broader
prejudices and belief
systems.
28. Multi-cultural and Multi-ethnic
Literatures
Uniquely situated to
view under this
broader banner of
who I am and where
I’m from, and how
these things
contribute to what I
write
YOU are invited to
contextualize
yourself as well--who
YOU are and in what
context you’re
reading these texts in
order to understand
how you ‘read’ a
particular text
29. So: WHAT IS LITERATURE?
What constitutes a “literary” text?
What qualities will help me to
determine the ‘literariness’of a text?