Timeline for What are the ways academics have defined literature over the years?
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:48 | comment | added | DukeZhou | This is a very interesting question, and I've been thinking about it over the weekend. Although "literature" does reference the textual medium, "literary" has a much broader definition. Poetry in particular is not bound to text, and yet it is arguably the leading exemplar of those qualities we consider literary. Thus Bob Dylan can win the prize for literature, despite his poetry not being intended for the textual medium. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 1:17 | comment | added | user111 | @DukeZhou it's just one definition; I can think of quite a few other definitions that I haven't bothered to put here yet. BTW I rolled back the edit because the stuff in the blockquote is a direct quote from the article. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 1:16 | history | rollback | user111 |
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 20:14 | history | edited | DukeZhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
a little re-ordering and an added bullet on meaning
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 20:12 | comment | added | DukeZhou | This is a good answer with the caveat that it applies to the use of "literature" in the context of art, thus the aesthetic requirement and weak implicatures. (Avoiding the latter in particular is the primary goal of scientific and legal literature.) | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 18:33 | history | answered | user111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |