Jot Down the Literature, Literati !: What is Literature?

Literature is a sort of writing that has some form, content, imagination, creativity, subjectivity, artistry, and greatness. It never existed from the starting, but individuals concocted and made it on different occasions, and eventually, it provides us entertainment and message. A literary text can be in the form of a monologue, but the words a writer chooses should be framed and must have some form and meaning to it. Furthermore, literature requires mental work from a reader to figure out what the author is trying to say. Literary text can either be a first-person narrative (tells the story from the narrator’s perspective) or third person narrative (third-person pronoun is used). The first-person narrative in a literary text either represents the author or any other person from the world or some imaginary character that may or may not exist. But it should be kept in mind that the persona ‘I’ does not always describe the author’s perspective. For example, in ‘Philosophy and mirror of nature,’ the writer has not discussed his view and kept himself away from getting involved in each piece of literature. Literature is writing in which the authors do not appear and let the reader understand the text as D.H Lawrance says, “Never trust the artist, trust the tale.” The famous literary works are “Old man and the sea” by Earnest Hemingway and “Bleak House” by Charles Dicken.”

Rainsford, who is the writer of this book, exquisitely writes an excerpt that argues that literature is a constituent of “allegory and irony, play,” and these literature manifestations are in-between “form and meaning” which build meaningful debate between reader and writers. And the reader is always uncertain about interpreting that specific text through objective and subjective critique. (Rainsford, 2014)