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Hallmarks and Significance of Literature

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Hallmarks and Significance of Literature

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Hallmarks and Significance

of Literature
Short Review
• What is the definition of Literature according to Kahayon?
• Why did Kahayon define it as such?
Literature
• “Literature” is derived from the Latin word litera which
means letter.
• Literature is defined as “pieces of writing that are valued
as works of art, especially those in the form of novels,
plays, short stories and poems.”
Significance of Literature
• Expanding Horizons

First and foremost, literature opens our eyes and makes us see
more than just what the front door shows. It helps us realize the
wide world outside, surrounding us. With this, we begin to learn,
ask questions, and build our intuitions and instincts.
Significance of Literature
• Building Critical Thinking Skills
Many of us learn what critical thinking is in our language arts classes.
When we read, we learn to look between the lines. We are taught to find
symbols, make connections, find themes, learn about characters.
Reading expands these skills, and we begin to look at a sentence with a
larger sense of detail and depth and realize the importance of hidden
meanings so that we may come to a conclusion.
Significance of Literature
• A leap into the past
• History and literature are entwined with each other. History is not just
about power struggles, wars, names, and dates. It is about people who
are products of their time, with their own lives. Today the world is
nothing like it was in the 15th century; people have changed largely.
Without literature, we would not know about our past, our families,
the people who came before and walked on the same ground as us.
Significance of Literature
• Appreciation for other cultures and beliefs
Reading about history, anthropology, or religious studies provides a
method of learning about cultures and beliefs other than our own. It
allows you to understand and experience these other systems of living
and other worlds. We get a view of the inside looking out, a personal
view and insight into the minds and reasoning of someone else. We can
learn, understand, and appreciate it.
Significance of Literature
• Addressing humanity
• All literature, whether it be poems, essays, novels, or short stories,
helps us address human nature and conditions which affect all
people. These may be the need for growth, doubts and fears of
success and failure, the need for friends and family, the goodness of
compassion and empathy, trust, or the realization of imperfection.
We learn that imperfection is not always bad and that normal can
be boring. We learn that life must be lived to the fullest. We need
literature in order to connect with our own humanity.
Significance of Literature
• Better writing skills
• When you open a book, when your eyes read the words and you
take in its contents, do you ask yourself: How did this person
imagine and write this? Well, many of those authors, poets, or
playwrights used literature to expand their writing.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Let us first define what a hallmark is?
In terms of literature…
• According to Garcia 1993, these are qualities to distinguish great
literature. A text that appeals to our sense of beauty, a text that
enriches our mental life by making us realize the fundamental truth
about life and human nature, a text that move us deeply and stir our
creative imagination, a text that elevates the spirit, a text that can be
read again and a text that is timeless and timely.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Artistry- quality in beauty sense.
•  Artistry
• It has an aesthetic appeal to everyone and thus possesses a
sense of beauty. Artistry describes literature that is
aesthetically appealing and reveals or conveys hidden truth
and beauty. This type of literature appeals to broad audiences
and possesses a sense of beauty in the writing that could even
feel poetic.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Intellectual Value- the thought in the text
It stimulates critical thinking that enriches the mental processes of
abstract and reasoning, making man realizes the fundamental truths of
life and its nature.

Intellectual value takes readers into a bit of a gray area as they


may have different opinions about what qualifies as
intellectual, but from an academic point of view, intellectual works are
relevant to society and thought provoking. Literature with intellectual
value promotes critical thinking that enhances both abstract and reason-
based thought processes and makes readers focus on the fundamental
truths of life and nature.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Suggestiveness- the emotions present in the story.
It unravels and conjures man’s emotional power to
define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and
message, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane
of ordinary life and experiences. A suggestive piece of
literature relies on emotional power to convey nuances,
symbolism, implied meanings, imagery and messages. The
power of suggestion allows the work to inspire and provoke
thoughts and understanding beyond the actual words written on
the page.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Spiritual Value- the moral lessons and values elevating the person’s
spirit in the story whatever the situation.
• It elevates the spirit and the soul and thus have the power
to motivate and inspire, drawn from the suggested morals or
lessons of the different literary genres.

Literature with spiritual value lifts up the inner spirit and soul


and has the power to motivate and inspire readers. It typically
draws on the suggested lessons and moral codes of society that
are depicted in various literary genres.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Permanence-the endurance of the work
It endures across time and draws out the time
factor: TIMELINESS, occurring at a particular time,
and TIMELESSNESS, remaining invariably throughout time.

Permanence is determined by a written work’s ability to


stand the test of time, which makes it impossible to determine at
the moment of writing. Novels that continue to be read over and
over again across decades, either for enjoyment or for fresh insights
and ideas, meet this criteria. Many novels enjoy initial popularity but
ultimately fade into obscurity with time, failing the permanence test.
Hallmarks of Literature
• Universality
• It appeals to everyone regardless of culture, race, sex,
and time which are considered significant.
Universality describes a piece of writing that
appeals to the hearts and minds of almost any reader.
The appeal is considered universal due to its ability to
cross gender, racial and cultural barriers, regardless of
the time it’s written
Hallmarks of Literature
Style
• Style refers to the distinct way the author expresses his or her
thoughts. Words can be used in unique, creative and entertaining
ways that make the work memorable. Style is another element that is
subject to interpretation by readers in terms of its appeal.

• It presents peculiar ways on how man sees life as evidenced by the


formation of his ideas, forms, structures, and expressions which are
marked by their memorable substance.
If i love You
by E. E. Cummings

if I love You
(thickness means
worlds inhabited by roamingly
stern bright faeries

if you love me) distance is mind carefully


luminous with innumerable gnomes
Of complete dream

if we love each (shyly)


other, what clouds do or Silently
Flowers resembles beauty
less than our breathing
Activity
Directions: Read the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
and identify the hallmarks of literature present in the story. Justify your
answer by citing lines as evidence.

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