ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Thought Experiment, Poetry Slam, School Story

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• Course: ACCT 002
• Professor: Chaojibai

Document Summary

Literature is all about how it is presented language differs from usual everyday language. Contexts historical context, overall circumstances in which the text is written and read. Literary languages from everyday language (what and how an author tells something) Literature= not only the written word; literature refers to all kind of cultural articles. > distinction between oral (poetry slam), written(novel) and audio-visual(movie) media of transmission. 2. 1 fictionality (fiction: latin fingere ( to form, to invent, to feign ); etw erfundenes also. Plato and aristotle on the virtues and dangers of mimesis. Even when fiction is opposite of fact it does not have to be the opposite of truth. Plato"s view in (the republic): literature creates false realities; can corrupt readers; literature is dangerous. Aristotle"s view( in poetics): literature gives us probable truth that resonates with the experiences of readers. He makes a distinction between literature and truth. Literature gives us probable truth, they create possible worlds.