Literature grows out of life, reacts upon life and exists because of life. Yet to define literature is very difficult task. The term itself refers to wide range of printed materials and non printed stuff too (e.g. ballad, which spread from mouth to mouth rather than by black printed words.) Language and the result it provides to the readers (information or emotion?) plays vital role in deciding whether the text is literary, scientific or historic. Historical books leave us with information while literary work with emotion, it may be of delight or disdain. Moreover, the literary language is highly connotative and the same is not true with the scientific language. But you may ask Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” transcends the historical boundaries and invade into literary region. To conclude, to stuff the meaning of literature is some precise sentences is too complex to attempt.
Note: Some crammed sentences; I forcefully plucked out of my mind and viola!!! The status bar declared “words: 153”.
