How to classify literature?

Literature is divided into four categories according to genre: poetry, prose, drama and novel.

1. Traditional poetry is a rhythmic literary work. It expresses some strong feelings through imagination and lyricism. Poetry is the oldest literary form.

2. Prose is a literary form without strict rhythm and space restrictions.

3. Drama is another ancient literary form, which mainly expresses the author's thoughts and feelings through dialogues between different roles.

4. Fiction is a narrative literary genre, which generally expresses social life through characterization and description of plot and environment.

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The value of literature:

In addition to external, practical and utilitarian values, literature also has internal, seemingly useless and utilitarian values, that is, spiritual values.

Spirit has many different definitions. We generally define the concept of spirit in this sense: it is an intentional existence within human beings, an organic unity of many psychological factors of human rationality and sensibility, and a psychological activity process of human beings constantly surpassing themselves and perfecting themselves.

Therefore, spiritual value is different from material value, and spiritual value is internal, ontological and constantly surpassing itself. Literary creation is the spiritual activity of literary and art workers, literary works belong to the spiritual products of human beings, and the acceptance and appreciation of literature and art also belong to human spiritual activities. Therefore, the spiritual value of literature and art should be its own most intrinsic and basic value.

As Moritz Geiger, an early German phenomenologist, pointed out, "In a work of art, there are certain characteristics that constitute its value, that is, the characteristics of artistic spiritual value, that is, it does not serve a certain purpose. These values are experienced by people as features that exist in works and are included in works of art. "

While performing various "service" duties, art has forgotten what it is, and while we have too many "works of art", we have also lost our "artistic spirit".

Art is not only a tool, but also a "work". Art is essentially a way of life, an attitude towards life, a connotation of life and a belief on which life depends.

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