"hautot" - 1 õppematerjal

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.