Literature is literally "an acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)").
Critics may exclude works from the classification "literature", for example, on the grounds of a poor standard of grammar and syntax, of an unbelievable or disjointed story-line, or of inconsistent or unconvincing characters.
Some recent philosophy works are argued to merit the title "literature", such as some of the works by Simon Blackburn; but much of it does not, and some areas, such as logic, have become extremely technical to a degree similar as that of mathematics.
Therefore, comparative literature does not come into existence as a sum of the histories of individual national literatures, but with a study of their structural units : these are not a simple sum of individual literary characteristics, phenomena and particles and, therefore, they can be the subject of a special, independent discipline.
Considering Čop's viewpoints on European literature it is also possible to talk about their actual importance for the growth of Slovene poetic creativity since, in indicating the principles of Romantic classicism and a special aesthetic function of romantic forms, he contributed to the beginning of Slovene romantic classicism in Prešeren's central period.
For this comparative-historical understanding of the past phases of Slovene literary development the example of deconstruction is gradually becoming a stimulus towards revaluation of traditional schemes, forms, trends and approaches to comprehend the history of Sloveneliterature from the standpoint of a comparative literary scholarship.
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