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    Reading fiction, in my experience, creates an unforgettable vivid mental image in my brain. In “Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming,” Neil Gaiman asserts that reading fiction is vital for everyone. Fiction can lead to answers. It has the power to teach us lessons that plain non-fiction cannot. Moreover, fiction can improve our imagination. It can let us imagine things that are abnormal for common sense but beneficial for humankind. Perhaps most importantly, fiction can let

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    century literature has been a prominent aspect of life in American culture, beginning how to read it in childhood to benefiting by it throughout adulthood. Throughout the texts “Heels over Hemingway”, “Why Literature Matters” , and “Good-bad books” all argue the idea that literature has changed over the years, due to the fact that the world around us has changed as well which effects literature. For this reason Dowd, Orwell, and Gioia assert to their audience the importance of literature, and that

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    Power Of Literature Essay

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    Literature comes in all forms; its basically everything around us. Movies, books, newspaper, songs, posters, magazines, these are examples of literature. Like the many forms of literature, it also has many purposes; literature is used as a source of entertainment, it in forms people, and it also enlightens them with knowledge. Ever since we entered school, we have constantly been questioned, asked to reflect upon what we read and to analysis what we read, watch and see. All we have been doing since

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    Pound constructs a theory of national literature with an international flavor by privileging difference. Following in the footsteps of Goethe, he advocates for a world literature grounded on “the recognition of differences” and “of the right of differences to exist” and “not a levelling…or elimination of differences” (“Henry” 298). In Pound’s “National Culture: A Manifesto” (1938), he provides a brief outline of the formation of a national literature (or more generally, a national culture). “A

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    teachers could encounter in using literature text and the various genres of literature such as poetry, drama and novels in learning and teaching language. Introduction The primary function of language is communication and it is only aim to transfer knowledge but also to obtain information on the language and culture a society. Literature is one of the unique way that reflects the feelings and thoughts of people as well as the wearer of the culture. The literature therefore uses language to make

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    Literature can be defined in innumerable ways. Any written or spoken material is literature. “Literature” is works of creative thoughts and literary skill. Drama, poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction are all forms of literature. Moreover, literature is believed to be the message of a writer’s experience of life. Literature is creatively advanced and of lasting quality. Most importantly, literature is the mirror of life. It helps us to understand those things that are not easily understood

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    If a literature loving time traveler were to journey into the past to study English Renaissance literature as compared to the former Anglo-Saxon literature, they would find that changing beliefs and ideas in society are reflected in the writing of the time. The historical context of the English Renaissance impacts not only the subject matter of poems, but also the underlying themes in the text. It is important to examine the differences and similarities between each era to understand the differences

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    Indeed, the best works of literature are those which are of relevance to our lives today. Through their relevance, these novels continue to persist and endure on. Through their relevance, we can better comprehend the messages, the themes, and the ideas that are imbued in them. Rather than literature being contradictory and in conflict with the truth and unpleasant reality of daily life, it becomes a weapon through which we can be educated about the existential crises facing our world today. In fact

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    Point Of Literature Essay

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    The point of literature Personally, I think the point of literature is entirely subjective. Even the definition of literature can be interpreted differently. In class just now, it was defined as written works with artistic value, which I agree with to some extent, but then again, what does and doesn’t constitute as artistically valuable is also subjective. I feel like I’m on a fast-track to my history and philosophy class here, being all like “everything is subjective, nothing is real”. The point

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    to give immense account on what thing are really like. Literature is an art of writing where the writers express the human experiences in their specific kind of language i.e. to communicate the information. Literature is a real time travel. An archeology can give us elements, a snapshot of time, but the literature is more of an energy, showing us what people 100’s or 1000’s of years ago believed, behaved and what they experienced. Literature gives us chance to broaden and deepen the human experiences

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