WHAT IS LITERATURE?
Definition Literature According to Experts
Henry van Dyke
Henry van Dyke
“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.”
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.”
Roman Jakobson (Russian Formalist)
“Literature is organized violence committed on ordinary speech”
Ezra Pound
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the
utmost possible degree.”
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."
G. K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
C.
S. Lewis
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe
it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and
provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have
already become."
Henry Miller
“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.
Alfred North Whitehead
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity
receives its expression."
E.M. Forster
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it
transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who
wrote."
according to definition of literature above, so literature
is writing as an art form and every writing has deep meaning of nature
and life.
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