Garrido, What Is Literature
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ScribdTranslationsIts root is littera (letter). In plural, litterae, letters, written things.
Etymologically, the character
Something written is evidently the dominant one. However, we can talk about 'literature.
Oral. Literature belongs to a tradition that refers rather to the domain of the
writing techniques and intellectual preparation: a rhetoric, in short. As happens with
All words, including literature, do not offer their meaning except within each context.
and situation. The art made with words needs to be translated from one language to another in a
operation in which the intellectual content, "the written", is fundamentally gathered.
necessary dimension of social exchange may have contributed to the prevalence of the
literary expression.
The poem is considered the finished model of what we understand as literature. The truth is that
You can learn to do anything in this life by finding an appropriate method.
- Introduction: To make a poem, it is not necessary to wait for anything to come.
special inspiration. Just apply seven rules.
A few words are taken, poetic in themselves, and they are gradually distributed.
among the different stanzas.
A few rather vulgar words are taken and are made poetic by giving them a
proper ending: little bird, stream, whitish.
A few pairs of different colors are formed, in such a way that they contradict each other as much as possible.
possible the colors of each couple: black green, white scarlet.
Some verbs change their usual occupation: shadows are closed.
Some words, those that are sometimes used, are also distributed among the verses.
people without knowing what they want to say: erect, bristly, unscathed, barren.
6) To achieve greater poetic strength, take advantage of a small piece of a well-known classic poem.
7) Add a chorus, even if it's short, to repeat between every two stanzas.
Literary creation flows through the channels of a special use of language: intense use of
affective characters. When talking about 'language', one must refer to both natural language and
Other forms of communication. Literature is not just a matter of language.
Literary theory does not always necessarily require an obscure jargon. It is necessary to master the
technical terminology like in any other specialty of human beings, but it is necessary to.
It has also insisted that literature, like all art, is a form of knowledge. A
a novelist and a sage observe life differently. The novelist reveals the truth to us,
even if it's just from an intimate corner of the world. Many writers have taught us more
about man and the world that a thousand authors of scientific works.
Literature in some cases can be fiction and not a lie. Literature invites to share a
discovery, but that discovery is implied in the very laws of artistic creation.
One function of literature is to free emotions and this may have to do with getting rid of
of the ghosts themselves. Although the emotions raised by literature are not the same
from real life: there is no guarantee that they will relive the original emotion that triggered it
the artist is the inspiration for the work. The author, when producing a work, does not have the certainty that it will
to be understood in the same way it was written. Many human beings
throughout the ages, they have felt the need to express emotions with their words or to
to tell stories, many others have felt compelled to receive them. If certain authors
they have achieved an artistic (or brilliant) speech with certain procedures that have been
Could have been inventoried precisely based on the results, it will be enough to configure some recipes with
those procedures so that the one who applies them has certainty of success. It is about the
principle of imitation of the classic.
The poetics and the rhetoric transformed into the prescriptive or recipe-like norms for
achieve an artistic discourse. Literature is not produced mechanically. Manuscripts are
they are classified as autographs, written by the author to whom they are attributed, or apographs,
copied directly or indirectly from the original. The purpose of all text editing is also
the new name of ecdotics, a discipline that includes all the precise operations for the
preparation of the work for its publication
Another task of literary history is the dating of texts. The chronological problems
are of utmost importance for the literary historian, since every work must be
interpreted in relation to history, the sequence of events could not be established without a
timeline on which successivity is marked. External data is the means.
bibliographic, testimonies from contemporaries, references extracted from letters or diaries of the
author, etc.
In addition to dating, the history of literature establishes influences and sources. The study of
The sources in all their breadth is one of the possible approaches of the discipline that is known
as Comparative Literature.
Literary criticism, in general, is the analytical discipline that is applied to a work in
particular or a set of works by an author, a period, or a genre.
Literary criticism means:
a) descriptive discipline of an analytical nature as opposed to the one that studies only principles
general or speculative.
b) Theory of literature, literary theory or Poetics insofar as every general principle can
to be conceived as a basis in possible analyses, and
c) Theory of the principles and methods that should be used in literary critical activity.
Literary analysis
There is an evident dialectical relationship between theory and analysis.
Literary analysis methodologies are classified into:
Imminent: those methods that aim to draw conclusions from the same roof or group of
texts considered in themselves or perhaps with reference to a linguistic model that allows
to elevate the data to a category, but always independently of any key foreign to the language.
The imminent methods are Statistics, Formalism, Structuralism, Thematism and the
statistical analysis.
Transcendentals: they analyze the work by virtue of an imperative key that is beyond the
linguistic configuration of the text. They are: Sociocriticism, Psychocriticism, and Poetics of the
imagination, the Aesthetics of reception and Hermeneutics.
- Integrators: they address the analytical keys in the process of enunciation. The data of
statements are integrated into a larger set and the surrounding data are not considered as
something external but are considered relevant to the outcome of significance. They are: The
Semiotics, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Text Linguistics, and systematic theories of
literature.
