What counts as Literature?
Literature became a respected academic field due as a result of what?
Social, scientific, technological, and cultural advancements
Professionals such as authors, literary agents,,etc... make distinctions and value judgements about what....
The literary merits of various texts.
The 4 main ways to group literature are?
Historical period, National tradition, Genre, and by identity.
New criticism is the idea that you should what?
The work/text should include all of the material that is necessary to understand it.
Literary studies in the 21st century is committed to emphasizing what?
the ways in which reading increases our empathy for others and gives us insight into both our history and the issues that face us today.
Why should we study literature?
Doing so allows teaches the power and potential of human creativity.
The literary canon is....
The group of texts that experts agree educated people should have read
The periods of literature are not fixed and scholars of literature continue to debate what?
Where the periods should start and end and the usefulness of diving literature into periods at all.
The manuscript, printed page, and electronic book are what?
Textual artifacts that can offer insight into the culture that created them.
Literary studies today emphasis the intrinsic value of what to live a rich life?
Creativity, Art, Contemplation and Reflection.
Practicioners argue that literature reveals and gives individuals what?
A path toward understanding their humanity.
How do we measure the value, impact, originality or success of creative works and beyond what point do they count as literature?
Our answers are subjective and based on taste, preference, background, and many other factors
Understanding the basics about the historical divisions that mark 2 canons can help students to what?
Understand important features of the literature that they contain.
The digital facsimile is?
An electronic reproduction or transmission of a document.
What does it encourage a focus on to determine the relationship between the form and the effect of language and linguistic style?
Stylistics
The study of literature emphasizes.....
A fairly standardized list of criteria exists for?
Evaluating texts and deciding which deserve inclusion in the canon.
Making distinctions based between works of literature based on periods, genres, cultural identity, or national tradition can....
both assist and limit out interpretations.
Cognitive metaphor theory argues what?
That language is filled with metaphors that we often overlook but greatly impact our actions.
What does literary studies emphasize the connection between needed for strong critical thinkers in the work force?
Skillful analysis and the interpretation of literary texts.
Literature can do more than hold a mirror up to peoples personal experience such as....
Challenging their ideas about what it means to be human and help people to perceive ways of living and thinking that are different from their own.
Having a historical significance, doing more than telling a story or entertaining, connecting to previous literature, and giving insights into humanity.
The identities of literature are....
Working-Class literature, Multicultural American literature, postcolonial literature, Anglophone literature, Decolonized literature, Women's literature, and LGBTQ literature.
Digital scholarship often involves what?
Transferring literary texts to a digital medium for the purpose of analysis as well as the creation of digital tools.
What other disciplines besides literature has english expanded to in terms of writing?
Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, and Professional Writing and Technical Communication