What is LITERATURE ?

WHAT IS LITERATURE ?

Yosh....Good day everyone. Welcome back on my blog.  After months, i didn’t post anything but now,  I’m going to post again about something related to LITERATURE. And this we start from the definiton of literature itself. And here i have 10 definiton of literature according to expert.  Alright check it out.

1. Henry van dake
“Literature consists of those writing which interpret the meanings of nature and life, in words of charm and power, touched  with the personality of the author, in artistic forms of permanent interest”

2. Imam ja’far al-sadiq (Muslim scholar and philosopher)
“Literature is the garment which one puts on what he says or writes so that it may appear more attractive”

3. Roman jakobson (Russian Formalist)
“Literature is organized violence committed in ordinary speech”

4. Erza pound
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”

5. Salman rushdie
“Literature is where i go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where i hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart”

6. G.K  Chesterton
“Literature is a luxery;  fiction is a necessity”

7. C.S Lewis
“Literature adds to reality, it does no simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily lfe requires and provides; and in the respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become”

8. Henry miler
“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

9. Alfred north whitehead
“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression”

10. E.M Foster
“ What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote”.


Well...after read the definition i can take conclusion that “Literature is writing of expression from the author that express his/her deep feeling about something”

OK that’s all for now, and may be in the next post i will post  something in the area of literature such as prose; poetry, drama, and so on.