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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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