LITERATURE

Literature



Literature

Value of Literature

In the seventeenth century, what we now call "literature" was designated as poetry or eloquence. During the Siglo de Oro Spanish, poetry is meant any intellectual invention, belonging to any genre and not necessarily in verse. In the early eighteenth century began to use the word "literature" to refer to a set of activities that use writing as a means of expression. In the late eighteenth century, the meaning of specialized literature, confined to the literary works of renowned aesthetic quality. This concept can be found in the work of Marmontel, Elements of literature.

In England in the eighteenth-century literature, the word "literature" was not referring only to the writings of any creative and imaginative, but covering the body of writings produced by the educated classes, fit in it from philosophy to the test, through letters and poetry in this way poetry is important to citizens of a highly technological global society. It was a society in which the novel had a poor reputation, and questioned whether it should belong to literature. That is why Eagleton suggests that the criteria to define the body of literature in the eighteenth century England were ideological, limited to the values and tastes of an educated class. Not supported the ballads and romances street, or the plays. In the last decades of the eighteenth century appeared a new demarcation of the discourse of English society. Eagleton tells us that we get the word "poetry" as a product of human creativity, as opposed to the utilitarian ideology of the start of the industrial age. This definition is found in the work of poetry Defense (1821) from Shelley. In the England of Romanticism, the term "writer" was synonymous with "visionary" or "creative". But not without ideological overtones, as in the case of Blake and ...