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Course: Western Literature Introduction

Assignment one

Instructor: Pei-Yi Lee

Name: XXX

Date: 09/25/2009

English content :

1. Definition if literature:

Literature is the art of written works.  Literally translated, the word means “acquaintance with letters” (from Latin litten letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is knows as letters (as in the phrase “Arts and Letters”).  In Western culture the basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction.

2. Definition of western literature:

Western literature refers to the literature written in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque, Hungarian, and so forth.  Western literature is considered one of the defining elements of western civilization.

3. Genres of literature

The most general genres in literature are (in loose chronological order) epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, short story, and creative nonfiction.  They can all be in the genres prose or poetry, which shows best how loosely genres are defined.  Additionally, a genre such as satire, allegory or pastoral might appear in any of the above, not only as a sub-genre, but as a mixture of genres.  Finally, they are defined by the historical period in which they were composed.

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