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Introduction To English Literature: Mata Kuliah
Introduction To English Literature: Mata Kuliah
Introduction To English Literature: Mata Kuliah
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH
LITERATURE
TOPIC 1 : W H A T L I T E R A T U R E I S
1.1 The Definition of Literature.
debatable, because everyone has his own definition that is influenced much by his
letter, is the art of written works, the word literature means acquaintance with letters ,
means:
complexities and look for implicit meaning without assuming, say, that
falls into two major types that are written and oral literature. Oral
written source has drama, novel, poetry, and non fictional literature.
understand, and differ them into another writing. Let us take “Eagle”.
According to the Encarta World English Dictionary that the eagle is : large
bird of prey, a large and powerful bird of prey with a hooked bill and
broad wing span that hunts by day and is noted for its keen eyesight and
majestic scaring flight ( 1999 : 585). Based on the given explanation, the
readers do not need to think over to know what the bird looks like and his
way. He did not use the words “large and powerful” to describe it, even
intentionally he did not give the title to his short poem. In fact, the readers
can say that its title should be “ Eagle” based on the given clues through
the series sentences. It is only “the Eagle” that is able to clap the crag with
highly close to the sun in a very beautiful season in the azure world. From
his place, he can have a look the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls and
finally as fast as a thunderbolt , he falls. When the readers are reading the
what the eagle looks like. The reader’s sense of perception is stimulated to
work, they have to use their eyes to enjoy the beautiful day, they have to
go to the beach to have a look the wave which moves slowly as the baby
crawls.
In short, the above short poem gives different effect on the readers.
This fact is in line with what Rene Wellek and Austin Warren argue that
essence that is a living organism with the potential to affect other beings.
By reading literary works, the readers are able to expand their experiences,
which the readers can escape from the realistic world to contemplate or a
speeches , or sermons , she feels that the human mind has not achieved
anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thought. Ultimately,
author says and how she says it. The readers may interpret the author’s
universal and it affects them. In accordance with this fact, the readers have
certain goals when they are reading literary works. Some of them would
like to escape from their real life to forget their problem, so they want to
get the entertainment, while others would like to get the deeper
the results of their reading efforts will be worth it, so literature is a speech
act or textual events that elicits certain kinds of attention. It contrasts with
a certain kind of attention. And there should be endless circle among the
author, literary works, and the readers or audiences. Usually, the analysis
analysis focuses on the relationship between literary works and the readers
general between the literary works and the world in which the work was
persuasive strategies within the literary works and with the effect the work
between the author’s life and the literature the author creates, (4)
with one another , or the motivational influences of the writer, and (6)
works. Whether internal when the analysis focuses on the literary work
itself such as : (1) Formalistic or New Criticism, it studies the work in and
of itself, the images, the figures, the structure without reference to the
world in which it exists, its effects on its readers or its relationship to the
author and his life, (2) Dramatistic, it studies the work as though it were a
persona speaking?, what, where, when, how, and why is the person
speaking?
Literature is different from any other writings, it has its own nature.
readers are more likely to look for and exploit relations between form and
contribution each element that cause the effects of the whole, find
literature have a special relation to the world that is a relation that is called
as fictional. Literary work is s linguistic event which projects a fictional
world that includes speaker, actor, events, and an implied audience that is
the audience that takes shape through the works’s decisious about what
While other scholars believe that there are at least three specific things
owned by literature that make them different from other writings , those
are : (1) art, literature should provide its readers or audiences the art, that is
, rhythm, message, the sequence of events, setting or any others (2) the
the language which tends to have connotative meaning and show figurative
language ( 3) the object of literature is commonly about the fact, and the
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REFERENCES :
1. Culler, Jonathan.
Publishers.