The Nature and Function of Literature

The nature and the utilization of literary works must be correlative. The memoir of aesthetics might close to be summarized as a dialectic in which the thesis and counterthesis are Horaces dulce and utile: rime is bouquet and drug abuseful.\nTold that poetry is exploit, we fell that nicety has been do neither to the care, skill, and planning of the exitman nor to the seriousness and importance of the verse form; but told that poetry is work or craft we ascertain the violence done to its wallow and what Kant called its purposelessness. We must cast the function of art in such a substance as to do justice at one to the dulce and the utile.\nIt is equiprobable that all art is sweet and useful to its appropriate users.\n other point of importance: Has literature a function, or functions? In practice, literature can plainly take the place of many another(prenominal) things, for example: it can be used by the historian as a social document.\nOne contemprorary line as serts the use and seriousness of poetry by finding that poetry conveys fuck - a kind of knowledge. poesy is a form of knowledge. Aristotle had seemed to regularize whateverthing like that in his known dictum that poetry is to a greater extent philosophical than history, since history relates things which go happened, poetry such as might happen.\nIt remains to view those conceptions of the function of literature forgather about the word catharsis. The function of literature, some say, is to relieve us - either writers of readers - from the pressure of emotions. And the ravisher of a tragedy or the reader of a impertinent is also said to experience release and relief. Emotions represented in literature are, neither for writer nor for reader, the same emotions in really life.\nTo conclude: development the word, we say, poetry has many attainable functions. Its prime and shief function is fidelity to its own nature\n\n\nlit as functional, unstable and ideology-related ve rge\n\nOne can conceptualise of literature as some inherent quality or set of qualities...