Foreign Literature What is literature?

Foreign literature refers to the world literature except China literature. Literature is an art that uses language as a tool to reflect the objective reality and more vividly express the writer's spiritual world. Including poetry, prose, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales and other genres, it is an important form of literature, expressing inner feelings in different forms and reproducing social life in a certain period and region.

As a discipline, literature includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.

General characteristics

The basic feature of literary works is to reflect social life with images. In the process of literary creation, writers always carry out activities (or ways) of thinking in images. It has three characteristics:

First of all, the writer uses various artistic means to melt and cast a large number of perceptual materials obtained from life into living artistic images.

Secondly, it is always inseparable from imagination (fantasy, association) and fiction.

Third, it is always accompanied by strong emotional activities.