21ST L1 LITERATURE

LITERATURE

Derived from the LATIN WORD "LITERATURA" which means WRITING, from LITERATUS, LEARNING.

LITERATURE

Covers both ORAL and WRITTEN FORMS of works which manifested EXPRESSIVE or IMAGINATIVE QUALITY, NOBILITY OF THOUGHTS, TIMELESSNESS, and UNIVERSALITY.

Takes SIGNIFICANT HUMAN EXPERIENCES as its main subject.

Expresses the FEELINGS of people to SOCIETY, to the GOVERNMENT, to his SURROUNDINGS, to his FELLOWMEN, and to his DIVINE CREATOR. (Brother Azurin)

Webster Definition

Denotes literature as the COLLECTIVE PRODUCTION of the HUMAN MIND that deals with PERMANENT and UNIVERSAL THEMES ascribed by CREATIVITY and GRACE OF EXPRESSION.

View by Tiempo et al.

Literature as a general term used for POETRY, FICTION, and DRAMA is mainly the EXPRESSION OF MEANING ARTICULATED THROUGH FORM.

View by Baritugo et al

Described literature as the ARTISTIC REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES in either POETRY or PROSE.

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

-A COLLECTION OF FILIPINO EXPERIENCES expressed in a CREATIVE WAY which has progressed with our HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE.

(Menoy, 2016)

A body of WRITINGS BY FILIPINOS who are not only LITERATE IN TAGALOG or other PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES, but also KNOWLEDGEABLE IN PHILIPPINE CULTURE.

Key Features of Literature

•Literature is a FORM OF COMMUNICATION

•Literature is AN ART

•Nobility of Thoughts

•Timelessness

•Literature has UTILITY

•Universality

AWARD GIVING BODIES FOR LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES

•CARLOS PALANCA MEMORIAL AWARDS FOR LITERATURE -1950s most prestigious "Pulitzer Prize"

•NATIONAL ARTIST FOR LITERATURE - significant contributions

•PETER'S PRIZE - hiligaynon langauge

•PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS -books

•PREMIO ZOBEL - 1920s (spanish language)

•GAWAD URIAN - cinematic industry

Literature is a form of communication

Feature - Montealegre described literature mainly as the product or a commentary on the life of process.

Literature is an art

Feature - "Dulce" is a term which refers to beauty and magnificent. Literature takes an excellent form. Its beauty is delibirated manifestation of the minds ability to create and imagine.

Nobility of Thoughts

Feature - Literature should deal with ideas that can lead to new responses to the world and can move people to achieve great discoveries of the dimensions of human life experience.

Timelessness

Feature - The significant truth about life that a literary work reveals should not wane and dissipate as time passby.

A work must have an enduring quality in which its beauty as well as its applicability can withstand the change of time.

Literature has utility

Feature - The term "utile" refers to the intellectual, emotional, and social function of any creative or literary work.

It has the power to influence perspectives about the self and the world in general.

Universality

Feature - A work must have global applicability in which a work transcends across space.

Example: Filipinos love to watch dramas and movies of foreign origin.

El Filibusterismo

-Jose P. Rizal

Published on September 18, 1891

Ghent, Belgium

Reign of the Greed

Dedicated to GOMBURZA

Inspired on The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

Has 38 chapters

Sequel to Noli Me Tangere which centers on the Crisóstomo Ibarra, returning for vengeance as "Simoun."

Noli Me Tangere

-Jose P. Rizal

Published on March 21, 1887

Berlin, Germany

Touch Me Not

Dedicated to Fatherland

Inspired on Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Stowe

Has 64 chapters

Explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late-19th century