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Why We Teach Literature (3295 words) |
 | One of the two camps was labeled the academic tradition, in which the treatment of literature in the curriculum was shaped by the science of philology, and the reading of every literary work had to be justified on the grounds of its contribution to the students' understanding of the logic and stylistics of literature. |
| Literature will contribute to their ability to understand others and to transcend differences if students read about people with problems like their own: people making life choices in circumstances of uncertainty, people searching for ideals in an increasingly materialistic world, people seeking to relate to others across cultural boundaries. |
| Secondly, it was suggested that a major value of literature is to give readers constructs--words, metaphors, images, and plots--with which to understand what would otherwise seem to be the random phenomena of human experience; and that a complementary value was the power of literature to nourish and educate the imagination. |
| Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1928 in literature (655 words) |
| Gaelic literature literature in the native tongue of Ireland and Scotland. |
| Swiss literature The literature of Switzerland is written in German, French, Italian, and Romansh, with German predominating. |
| Greek literature, modern literature written in Greek in the modern era, primarily beginning during the period of rebellion against the rule of the Ottoman Empire. |
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