Personally, I dont think you can define literature. You cant categorize it into a novel containing certain things. You could look at a novel and ask 100 different people what made that novel literature, and its almost certain that you'd get 100 different answers. Defining literature as " it has the ability to grab you, enthrill you, and enlighten you are all just factors that many novels, believed to be literature or not possess.
Shakespeak for example, the most well recognised figure in all of literature. Is it possible to pin point excatly what it in that his novels and/or plays contain that make them literature?
For me the answer is no, Personally, there is no way of underlining the key aspects of a novel that makes it literature. Can new writers not share the same qualities that Shakespears novels contain, and if they did, would they get the same recognition and status?
Again my answer would have to be, Although i'd like to say yes, it would have to be no simply because Shakespeare is know so greatly for his literature that when anything gets compared to it, there is no comparrison because the expectations are so high.
A bit like saying Shaheen Jafagholi posseses the same qualities as Michael Jackson.
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I think this is a valid point. Somewhow a writer has to gain status to be accepted in the canaon. Can your blog be called literature? It appeals to the emotions and makes me think.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of what you said, especially about not being able to define literature becuase everyone would have a different opinion. But I do believe that new, modern writers do compare to Shakespeare and, hopefully, someday they will get the same recognition as he has had and still has.
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i agree with what you said about the new writers they always get compared to some1 else when really it should just be seen as a new piece of literature if they were all the same it would be boring :Dan
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I too hope that they *could* have the same recognition, but with shakespeare lingering around, is it possible without the comparison ?
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I agree with not being able to define literature its too broad a concept to be pigeon holed into something. Yeah shakespeare should be left alone and not compared with all the other new writers they are just as good some of them better!! :)
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