LITERATURE

Now we are going to start looking deep into literature, but what`s literature? what can be considered literature?  well, acording to Its definition literature is: "a highly developed use of language in that is the stylized manipulation of language for larger effect (purpose) and/or affect (emotional response)" (definition taken from the  Language and Literature course companion book).


 In some sort of introduction to literature and to understand it better, our task was to formulate some questions about some fragments from really complex novels, which were: "The Leopard" (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa) and "Notable American Women" (Ben Marcus).


My question where:


-What`s the sense of the mytical figures in the text? what do they mean?


-Where are they? What is he describing?


-It is a good traslation from Italian?


and for the second text:


-About the last term, is it used literally?


-Who is the narrator? what is his relathionship to the author?


-Why the author is a possible character in the noble?




We also take a look at context. The context of a novel is everything surrounding the novel that affect the author and the reader and can be used to identify the real meanind of the book. We have the context of production and the context of reception.

• Context of production: Historical and biographical facts about the author and his life.

• Context of reception: You (as a reader) are very important in understanding the meaning of the text. Your experiences and emotions will affect the way you interpret and see a text or novel.