the literary world

• Literature


  The verbal expression, oral or written, of the experiences of the people influenced by their history
• Reasons for studying literature

  • To know ourselves, our heritage, and the genius of our race as a people distinct from others
  • To realize that like other people, we also have great noble traditions that we may use as foundation for the assimilation for new cultures and civilization
  • To realize the limitation of our literary capacities and to retrain ourselves to overcome them
  • To recognize our literary merits and fine means to improve them
• Universality


  • Literature appeals to everyone, regardless of culture, race, sex, and time which are all considered significant
• Artistry

  • Literature has an aesthetic appeal, possesses a sense of beauty
• Intellectual Value


  • Literature stimulates critical thinking that enriched mental processes of abstract and reasoning, making man realize the fundamental truths of life and its nature
• Suggestiveness


  • Literature unravels and conjures man's emotional power to define symbolisms, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages
• Spiritual Value


  • Literature has the power to motivate and inspire, drawn from suggested morals or lessons of the different literary genres
• Permanence


  • Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor
  • Timeliness - occurring at a particular time
  • Timelessness - remaining invariable throughout time
• Style

  • Formation of ideas, forms, structures, and expressions which are marked by own memorable substance
• Subject


  Any work of literature is about something and for this reason, it has a subject. It may be an emotion, an object, an abstract idea, or an event
• Form


  The verbal and artistic structuring of ideas
• Point of View

  • Angle of vision of the narrator, determines the narrator of the story; the one who tells it from different points of view
  • First Person POV - a character-narrator who tells the story in the "I" voice, expressing his own views
  • Third Person Omniscient - a narrator that tells the story from an all-knowing point of view. He sees the mind of all the characters
  • Third Person Limited - a narrator that tells only what he can see or hear "inside the world" of the story. Otherwise known as "camera technique narrator" as he does not reveal what the characters are thinking and feeling
• literary standards

  • universality
  • artistry
  • intellectual value
  • suggestiveness
  • spiritual value
  • permanence
  • style
• three ingredients of literature

  1. subject
  2. form
  3. point of view