{"product_id":"literature-or-not-literature-thats-the-question-von-stephanie-wossner","title":"Literature or Not Literature: That's the question","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: A-, San Francisco State University (Ethnic Studies), course: Asian American Literature and the Arts, language: English, abstract: What is Literature ? According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe term Literature is defined as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: ¿Literature must be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity¿ (Rebecca West).¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Collins English Dictionary describes it as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿written material such as poetry, novels, essays, etc., esp. works of imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echaracterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eenduring interest.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emphasis in the first definition lies in the words ¿of recognized artistic value.¿ However,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein my opinion, what makes literature in the sense of ¿printed material¿ Literature is not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enecessarily the recognition of its artistic value. As far as the second definition is concerned,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest¿ seems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof primary importance. In opposition to this view, I believe that neither excellence of style\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand expression nor themes of general interest are necessarily characteristic for what should\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe considered Literature. In my understanding, everything that addresses our emotions, that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emakes us feel for one moment with a situation described is of ¿artistic value,¿ and that things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat are not of general interest and may not excel in style and expression can still be equal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the ¿Great Literature¿ recognized by the academic and literary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics have long considered Toshio Mori¿s work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿overly sentimental and poorly plotted [¿ and] full of grammatical errors.¿ [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640476640\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eToshio Mori, a realistic and multidimensional Japanese American Nisei writer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640476640","offer_id":58994381128005,"sku":"9783640476640","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_51d7a45e-4f61-4142-943c-996cf872b3e0.jpg?v=1787718469","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/literature-or-not-literature-thats-the-question-von-stephanie-wossner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}