Literature 1

It tells us about facts, explanations, history, real ‘great’ life figure, etc.

• Informative literature

• Imaginative literature

• THE IMITATIVE OR ‘MIMETIC’ THEORY

In this type of literature, the author expresses his ideas, his feelings, his attitude, etc. He wants to communicate feelings, not facts; emotion, not information only.

Literature is generally divided into tree groups,

• prose

• Expressive

• Drama

• Imaginative

• poetry

This is defined as a piece of information about a circumstance that existed or events that have really occurred like in a biography.

It is an imaginative situation like in a novel or a story.

Most theories of literature in the world can be put into these three classifications which can be called..

• fictional

• imitative

• realistic

• expressive

• affective

This theory holds that art is an imitation of something.

• Expressive

• Imitative

• Affective

This theory holds that the artist is not essentially an imitator but a man who expresses his feelings.

• Expressive

• Imitative

• Affective

This theory holds that a work of art ought to arouse a particular emotion, or affect in (the psychological term) the perceiver.

• Expressive

• Imitative

• Affective

This theory often includes the notion that art gives us not only pleasure but knowledge, insight into the nature of reality.

• Imitative

• Expressive

• Affective