What is the meaning of literature?

Meaning: Literature is not philosophy or religion. It does not provide an existentialism, but ensures that the human spirit will always have a fulcrum with its perception of the world, and this fulcrum is an ideal. No matter when the spirit is confused, when the mood is gloomy, or when we are in ecstasy, literature will always give us reliable spiritual guidance. Through reading, even listening to and watching literature, people realize some truths about life or the world, ignite their belief in survival, and find their personal survival goals. ...

1. Literature is an art that uses language and words to reflect the objective reality and express the writer's inner world, including poems, essays, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales and other genres. It is an important literary form, which expresses inner feelings in different forms and reproduces 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.

2. Literature is one of the disciplines belonging to the humanities, which keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics on the upper floor of social buildings. It originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji. China's works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were listed separately only after Wei and Jin Dynasties. The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama.

3. Literature is the art of language, an important embodiment of social culture and beauty. Literary works are works that writers express their unique spiritual world with unique language art. Without these two unique characteristics, there would be no real literary works. An outstanding writer is a hero in the spiritual world of a nation. Literature represents the art and wisdom of a nation. Literature is a subject that expresses social life and psychological activities in words, and belongs to the category of social ideology.

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