What is Literature.

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Here my interapeitation on How Literature Shape me? 

                                                                    

What is Literature?

                                                                     

                        Many times I have come across this question. It’s a simple one, yet very confusing. There are a lot of definitions on this question. However, I believe that the answer is a subjective one, since each person has its own way of understanding literature. What is Literature?  The simple truth is that” there is no satisfactory answer but it is possible for us to say that works of art “Give an insight into reality is the imitative theory holds

                      I asked to answer on this question, I understand literature as a magic that allows us to escape from reality, from our everyday life and sends us in another reality, sometimes showing someone else’s life. The key for this magic to work is the arrangement of word.

                      Actually, it’s all about words when it comes to literature. In some cases, no matter how good is the writer’s idea, if it’s not well-constructed, the piece is not a work of literature because a real literature is enjoyable and pleasing.

                     I would like to compare literature to Rubin’s cube – if words are not on the place where they would fit perfectly enough to stir reader’s imagination, the magic won’t work.

Definition of literature:

According to Robert Frost said,” Literature is a performance in words”

How Literature shape me?

   

                                                           

                      First of all I clarified that the shaping is not five or six year idea, it is life long process. Experiences will make  human  shape.  According to me literature is like “Allegory “I find that this sense of confusion and search for self-discovery is a common theme.  I am confident that is one that I will be satisfied with.  Thus far, in my opinion Literature in all forms is everywhere in today’s society, and with this idea, it is clear just how important it is.  Whether it is studied in the classroom, read for pleasure or purpose, literature is a central part of many lives. 

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                    It offers not only a chance to enlighten a person, but it also gives the chance to broaden one’s horizons and perspectives.  In my case, having the opportunity to study literature in two different languages has helped me to find similarities in two different cultures, and to also find that although literature varies in form and content, it is important and it is a central part of many lives." It also gives us to morality and also delight, freedom, and mental relief from Bondage.

                  

                 Literature provides a link with cultural, geographical, and philosophical ideas.   Literature also presents opportunities to learn about the desires and struggles of other individuals, thereby better comprehending our own desires and struggles.  Through reading literature, we gain a wider perception and increased knowledge and understanding.

                First, i have  kind of argument in which some people do not like literature because they think it is not true, just made up, not real life. They would say science and history are true; they deal with life; they are real. Therefore, they would say there are no Very good literature, except that of science and history. It is NOT TRUE! Normally they are student of B.B.A and C.A. so they tell me that what you studying in literature? You are studying It’s all Past? After completing what will you doing next? With History!! I gave only simple answered that you don’t get it. You have to become a student of literature after that you will understand, otherwise you don’t get. So come back on point that how literature shapes me.

                        Even though I am studying literature since 5 year text and theories .which I have studying in M.A has affected Shape me more as compares B.A. while reading literature my focus was largely on aesthetic or can say base on happy ending novel.

                     In  while studying a novel namesake, heart of Darkness, Moby Dick ,or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, ghashiram Kotwal, the bluest eye ,or far from madding crowd, at that time in my mind don't have any theory or approaches  like feminism, deconstruction, racism, subaltern identity or don't  know critic  even  Plato, Aristotle, Wordsworth, derrida ,  Saussure .  So mind is like empty because without applying theory literature becomes incomplete. 
                   When i look at on M.A study so it is more affected to me. The study is begin with is Shakespeare's Hamlet and study concluded with sense of an ending by Julian Barnes. In between lots of theory cultural studies, American study, African study, modernist study, postmodern, postcolonial study, new literature, romantic literature, criticism theory, English language teaching,  mass media communication, many things taught study. So all this in my mind and now the society which is to be seen. So when i look at society through the literature glasses it always leads towards doubting and questioning. even any incidence happen day to day life in society , so i can't forget literary charecter like hamlet, what thay doing in life. what happen with ophelia, all incident come in mind. so my point is that literature gives us to reality.

                I also see the very important difference between truth and fact. it's opposite Fiction and lies , In Literature and author will cause his characters to behave in a certain, way because he accepts truth and knows certain facts. and he is always concerned about how truth and fact related to each other.

                 Sophocles, Dante, Milton Thomas Hardy at once spring to mind as a writer strong conscious of the everlasting war of good against Evil.

                Literature should use Hamlet phrase hold the mirror up to nature it is reflecting some thought or feeling. Which we immediately recognised as being true to life it should be life and Honey Singh as a Matthew Arnold said of poetry a criticism of life.

               When we look it on criticism some theories of literature.
Most theories of literature in the world can be put into this three classification which can be called imitative expressive and effective.

               The imitative or normative theory in this theory politics Greek figure Aristotle says for example that tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious and complete............!) 
The imitative theory of fun include the notion that art gives us not only pleasure, but knowledge inside into the nature of reality the happening in the novel. or on the stage not only seems to resembles two things in real life but they also clarify real life making us say yes people are like that but I had not  he said it before.

When we look at Wordsworth ideas about expressive theory.

                     Two quotation from William Wordsworth will make this theory clear poetry he said is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" The poet's job is to treat of things not is there but is this seems to exist to the sense and the patient.

Conclusion:

                  I agree with it. I shouldn't expect this from literature.
Because it is something that you observe and absorb that how to live a life with better understanding of other people as well as society as a whole. It will bring change WITHIN yourself, which may not be visible, but reflects in your behaviour as well as in your way of approaching the world. But my intention was just to convey what i truly feel after reading this much literature.

Thank You.........