World Literature Analysis

World Literature

• World literature is the written and verbal expression of human feelings, thoughts, and ideas whose medium is language.
• It is a medium for humans to communicate what they feel, think, and experience to readers, transferring human experiences.

Literary Standards

• Suggestiveness: evokes emotions, defines symbolism, and implies meanings beyond ordinary life and experiences.
• Spiritual Value: motivates and inspires, drawing from suggested morals and lessons in different literary genres.
• Permanence: endures across time, standing the test of time, and has both timeliness and timelessness.
• Universality: appeals to everyone regardless of culture, race, sex, and time.
• Style: a distinct way of expressing thoughts, appealing to hearts and minds, and crossing gender, racial, and cultural barriers.
• Artistry: has aesthetic appeal, conveying hidden truths and beauty, and possessing a sense of beauty in writing.
• Intellectual Value: stimulates critical thinking, enriching mental processes, and making readers realize fundamental truths of life.

Classification of Literature

• Structure: Fiction (imaginative narration) and Non-Fiction (real-life narration based on history and facts).
• Genre: Literary Approaches, including Fiction, Poetry, Essay, Drama/Play, and Arts.

Literary Approaches

• Deconstructionism: language is not a stable entity, and we can never exactly say what we mean.
• Poetry: uses lines, stanzas, and rhyme scheme to depict poetic sounds and emotions.
• Drama/Play: script-literary composition and dramatic performance.
• Arts: includes paintings, drawings, music, and dances.

Main Divisions of Literature

• Prose: written in common flow of language, conveying information, expressing ideas, or presenting opinions.
• Poetry: uses lines, stanzas, and rhyme scheme to depict poetic sounds and emotions.

Literary Criticism

• Feminist Criticism: corrects predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
• Marxist Criticism: uses language influenced by social class and economics to make ideological statements.
• New Criticism: views the text as a self-contained entity, requiring no interpretation beyond the text.
• New Historicism: considers the literary text as part of a larger social and historical context.
• Literary Models: Cultural Model, Literary Model, Personal Growth Model, Psychological Criticism, and Queer Theory/Gender Studies.

Literary Models

• Cultural Model: explores and interprets social, political, literary, and historical contexts of a specific text.
• Literary Model: promotes language development like vocabulary and structure.
• Personal Growth Model: achieves lasting pleasure and deep satisfaction in reading.
• Psychological Criticism: explores human consciousness, motivations of characters, and symbolic meanings of events.
• Queer Theory/Gender Studies: questions and problematizes gender identity and sexual orientation in literary texts, respecting different identities.
• Reader-Response Criticism: focuses on the reader's individual experience with a text, considering what the reader felt from reading.

Explore the world of written and verbal expression through literature. Appreciate, analyze, and critique various works that convey human feelings, thoughts, and ideas through language. Understand how literature serves as a medium for communication and the transfer of human experiences.