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Western literary theory in the 2th century: What is literature?

literature refers to the art of visually reflecting the objective reality and expressing the writer's inner world by using language and writing as tools, including poems, essays, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales, etc. It is an important manifestation of culture, expressing inner feelings in different forms (called genres) and reproducing social life in a certain period and region.