Shakespeare stories

What is the meaning of The Tempest?

• Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. "a great work of literature"

• is any object that can be "read", whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothing. It is a coherent set of signs that transmits some kind of informative message.

• This set of signs is considered in terms of the informative message's content

Literature is...

• the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age, or the body of writings on a particular subject (scientific, art, etc.)

• coherent written message is completed and needs to be referred to independently of the circumstances in which it was created.

• primal symbolic arrangement of letters as originally composed, apart from later alterations, deterioration, commentary, translations, paratext, etc.

According Roman Jacobson, Literature...

• is best regarded as a semantic unit; a unit not of form but of meaning.

• transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

• words, groups, and clauses and textual units that is marked by both coherence among the elements and completion

Fiction is...

• when the author can make up the whole/entire story. Authors can also choose to include factual information in a made-up story

• personal interpretation of events shapes reality as seen by one and only one person.

• refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.

Fiction is...

• a large selection of popular movies and television shows.

• many categories including biography, business, cooking, health and fitness, pets, crafts, home decorating, languages, travel, home improvement, religion, art and music, history, self-help, true crime, science and humor.

• literature created from the imagination. Mysteries, science fiction, romance, fantasy, chick lit, crime thrillers are all fiction genres.

Non-fiction is...

• easily understandable grammatical structure.

• "Nonfiction" refers to literature based in fact. It is the broadest category of literature.

• a narrating of real or imaginary events, involving real or imaginary people