Just a simple question: What is literature?

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>>8623634
A word describing literature.

>>8623634
It's a simple question but the answer is less so

>>8623638
so can you answer?

Simply put, literature is any work of writing that encourages discussion or analysis.

>>8623677
So are scientific articles considered literature?

narrative art

>>8623777
Then you put in check the concept of art.

>>8623634
letters

>>8623767
Yes, I'd say so. They're not conventionally thought of as such, but I suppose they are.

>>8623634
Read Phaedrus you doughnut

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>>8623767
Scientific articles are not literature. This anon (>>8623833) is just too lazy to provide an adequate definition.

>>8623767
Depends of the language, in English scientific articles can be considered and referred to as scientific literature. In other languages such as Spanish, the word literature only refers to a text with literary value, and is different from a scientific text.

>>8623777
Poetry is considered art and it can often explore a simple emotion or feeling (Haiku) or a place/setting

>>8623634
A miserable pile of words.

>>8623634
numbers

>>8623634
family resemblance

>>8623634
Index fingers

>>8623634
Toilet Paper

An art form that uses words, usually written, but also in some cases spoken, as the tool of expression. It encompasses fictional narrative works, lyric works, drama (only the written form, though) and certain works of non-fiction (an autobiography such as Min Kamp obviously has artistic pretensions, while scientific articles generally do not).

>>8623634
Books and shit.

>>8623634
I dunno, books and stuff.

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>>8625070
i love mein kampf.

(original portrait)

>>8625070
The Diary of Anne Frank is considered literature, but it's just a diary.
There's a brazilian book called "Os Sertões" which is written in a jornalistic way, but it's considered literature as well.

>>8625420
That's why I said "certain works of non-fiction".

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>>8623634
>Literature is what gets taught, one aspect, that's all.

>>8624903
Haiku have narratives, all (non-concrete) poetry has narrative

>>8623634
The epic narrative of MUH PENIS.

>>8623677
That would literally mean ANY work of writing.

1. The body of all written works.
2. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
3. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
4. Written fiction of a high standard.

>>8623833
You sound like you'd be a terrible friend to have

>>8625420
The Diary of Anne Frank is transformed into literature via its context

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>>8623634
Read a book.

>>8628079
some would argue, yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallogocentrism