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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 20:44:17 GMT -5
A conversation that you overhear between two people can be analyzed and criticized. Do you consider that to be literature? Yup. |
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Post by Marina on Jun 13, 2011 20:45:24 GMT -5
Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources (although, under circumstances unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction.
From wiki.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 13, 2011 20:45:53 GMT -5
A conversation that you overhear between two people can be analyzed and criticized. Do you consider that to be literature? Yes. |
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 20:46:09 GMT -5
Then Dion, what DON'T you consider to be literature?
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 20:51:29 GMT -5
Literature is the largest land animal now living. Literature's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for literature to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb). Literature typically lives for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded novel lived for 82 years. The largest book ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This book weighed about 24,000 lb (11,000 kg) with a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average work of literature. The smallest books, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.
This would be the new wiki page for literature, if my IP wasn't blocked for vandalism already.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 20:53:08 GMT -5
Then Dion, what DON'T you consider to be literature? The Harry Potter series, and only the Harry Potter series. |
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Post by Dobby on Jun 13, 2011 20:55:56 GMT -5
Then Dion, what DON'T you consider to be literature? The Harry Potter series, and only the Harry Potter series. Why not? |
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Post by Marina on Jun 13, 2011 20:56:00 GMT -5
Literature literally means the art of the written word. I don't know what else you want.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 20:57:18 GMT -5
Literature literally means the art of the written word. I don't know what else you want. The wiki page you pointed out had a section for oral literature. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 20:59:05 GMT -5
The Harry Potter series, and only the Harry Potter series. Why not? I kid, I kid |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 13, 2011 21:04:39 GMT -5
There. Attachments:
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Post by Marina on Jun 13, 2011 21:05:18 GMT -5
Literature literally means the art of the written word. I don't know what else you want. The wiki page you pointed out had a section for oral literature. ... But it's a sphere of literature! Not literature itself! I think I've mentioned before that oral tradition can be a sub-ranch of literature!!! *clinging* |
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Post by Dobby on Jun 13, 2011 21:06:06 GMT -5
Well that settles it. Debate over! |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 21:07:19 GMT -5
The wiki page you pointed out had a section for oral literature. ... But it's a sphere of literature! Not literature itself! I think I've mentioned before that oral tradition can be a sub-ranch of literature!!! *clinging* But if it's oral literature, then it is literature. Literature's right there in the name. And I thought you said you weren't valuing one over the other? What's this talk of sub-branch? |
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Post by Marina on Jun 13, 2011 21:10:18 GMT -5
... But it's a sphere of literature! Not literature itself! I think I've mentioned before that oral tradition can be a sub-ranch of literature!!! *clinging* But if it's oral literature, then it is literature. Literature's right there in the name. And I thought you said you weren't valuing one over the other? What's this talk of sub-branch? "Oral literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word" Okay so I used sub-branch instead of sphere. I meant by definition, not by value, I made it clear that both are equal in my eyes. Sub-branch doesn't necessarily mean weaker value. |
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