This week I learned a lot about literature and was is considered literature and where it can stem from. I also was able to think about how a story was different from literature. Literature is the part that cannot be captured in a film or a movie and it is the art form behind a piece of writing. I was able to look into literature as art when we reviewed different pieces of art and uncovered what we thought the story behind them was and how the piece of art came to be. An article we read in class made a few things really stand out to me such as, "The tone and the word choice is what makes a story more than a story; it gives it life and substance, creating the form of art known as literature." and “We can take the plot, the events, the story part of a novel and make them into a play or a film. What we have to leave behind is the "literature", just as poetry, according to Robert Frost, is what gets lost in translation.”. The article we read that these quotes came from was https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zj5O06Bt73qW-jdOYLlbf7cvMAf1SSOi_qA4FEbYD7k/edit#heading=h.tf54u0zf1rbg. A second thing we did was watch a TED talk called "Finding a story inside a Painting" ( http://www.ted.com/talks/tracy_chevalier_finding_the_story_inside_the_painting?language=en ). This pointed out to me that similarly to an art gallery, where you might not connect with every painting, you don't have to connect to every poem that you read. Also, it is helpful to tell a story with art so you can understand it in your own way, and everyone else will interpret it in their own way. This blog post: https://writerlyderv.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/literary-fiction-vs-popular-fiction/ is helpful in finding the differences between Literature and Popular Fiction.
1 Comment
Josephine
10/11/2016 06:38:00 am
Hi Lydia,
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Lydia MillerArchives
April 2017
Categories |