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Sep 19, 2020 at 20:23 | comment | added | Tsundoku | "literature is writing where the author has taken care with her or his words": that would include political slogans, advertising slogans, tongue twisters, many essays, a great deal of philosophy, technical standards and (at least some) phishing e-mails. I think that definition is too broad. | |
Sep 19, 2020 at 19:55 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I am very dubious about any definition of literature that says it requires "close reading" to understand. "Close reading" of literature wasn't practiced much before the 20th century. Does that mean that people couldn't determine whether novels had literary merit before 1900? | |
Sep 18, 2020 at 11:57 | history | edited | Cahir Mawr Dyffryn æp Ceallach | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Sep 17, 2020 at 16:33 | history | answered | llywrch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |