A Linguistic Definition of Literature  

Oleh:

Edgerton, Mills F. [Jr.]

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 1 no. 2 (1967), page 119-130.
Fulltext: 01_02_Edgerlon.pdf (1.12MB)

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Whatever has been called literature is cast in language; the medium itself imposes limitations on the ways in which literature may justifiably be treated by virtue of the intrinsic properties of language. Any given human language is essentially arbitrary and social, not “natural,” and cannot, therefore, be treated as a medium of communication apart from its historical and social matrix. A work of literature has an objective “meaning” which it is theoretically but usually not practically possible to exhibit exhaustively; this meaning must be carefully distinguished from whatever new thought the experience of reading the work may generate in the reader. These premises have important consequences for the teaching of both a language and its literature.

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