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Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading.

Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading.

Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading. Begin by considering the meaning of literature. What does the term literature mean to you? What makes something literary in your own mind? If literature means different things to different people, who defines what is and what is not literature?

Next, reflect on your relationship to reading and literature. What kind of reading engages/interests you? What about that writing draws you in? Do you find meaning in reading certain writing? If so, describe the satisfaction you draw from this process. Also consider how you read. Do you, for example, take notes or mark text as you read, or do you simply absorb the material on a page?

There are no right or wrong answers to your response. This discussion is an opportunity to reflect on what literature is to you, as well as to consider the many meanings that literature may have for others in the class.

Initial posts must be 200 to 300 words in length

 

Clugston, R. W. (2014). Journey into literature (2nd ed.). San Diego, California: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

 

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Literature is a term that widely describes material that is spoke or written. Commonly, this term refers to creative imaginative words that includes fictional, non-fictional, poetic and dramatic material (Long, 2014). Literature can also be perceived as the art of written content. It consists the body of a culture or language period. The elements of our lives and everything that surrounds them can also be subject matters of literature.

 

It is important to note that literature however has different meanings to different people. The explicit definition of literature therefore lies on an individual’s perception. Strictly…………….

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