Some theories of Literature
Introduction to Literature
N.Raud
Lecture 1
Some Theories of Literature
Sources:
Sylvan Barnet. Morton Berman. William Burto. 2000.
An Introduction to Literature. Fiction. Poetry. Drama.
Boston. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.
Guy De Maupassant, Hautot and His Son, pp.325333
James Joyce, Araby,pp.345349
William Faulkner, The Bear, ÕIS, SMFolder
WHAT IS LITERATURE?
Literature is a "performance in words". It
has an element of entertaining display,
we expect literature to be in some
sense entertaining, or, to afford
pleasure.
WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES LITERATURE
PLEASANT?
A literary work seizes our interest and
more or less at least for a moment
makes the rest of the world fade and
vanish.
A work of art has this power to catch us
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