NATURE OF LITERATURE Flashcards
Literature is language that makes language strange so that you do not forget that you are dealing with language oddly shaped.
FOREGROUNDING OF LANGUAGE
Literature is a language in which the various elements and components of the text are brought into a complex relation.
Literature as the Integration of Language
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Literature as the Integration of Language
BASAHAN MO AKO
Literature as the Integration of Language
Literary works refer to imaginary rather than historical
individuals.
LITERATURE AS FICTION
May also be applied to non-fiction and poems.
LITERATURE AS FICTION
Immanuel Kant believed that aesthetic objects have a
“purposiveness without purpose.”
Literature as Aesthetic Object
The only purpose that literature has are to entertain its audience/readers and to make them think.
Literature as Aesthetic Object
Recent theorists have argues that works are made out of
other works: made possible by prior works which they take
up, repeat, challenge, transform.
Intertextual or Self-reflexive Construct
There are no original ideas anymore. They arejust recontextualization of a story that has ever written.
INTERTEXTUAL OR SELF-REFLEXIVE
