My notes about literature's lessons

Literature is the way the language is organized into possible meanings.

A classical is the peculiar use of language that aloud whatever reader of whatever time in whatever space to find out always new meanings in the same text.

UNA DEFINIZIONE DI LETTERATURA:

La letteratura è un mondo analogo.

Poetic language is different from everyday language. The message is condensed and hidden and the poet says a lot of things in few words. A text is written for the reader who have to understand the message and a poem can enrich the reader's mind. Poetry will tell you a lot about life.

We try to make sense of what literally language means (page 437)

It is rather remote from everyday language. A distinguishing of feature of literally language is a special or unusual use of language.

The role of the reader is an active, dynamic, in that he contributes to make the meaning of the text.

The meaning of a word depends on the context.

There is as many meanings as the number of the readers provided that (a patto che)  the reader can support his or her interpretation of a specific text.

Raw material of a literally text are words.

Why is an informational text an example of a static reality? à Because it can not change the reality.

A poem that is about literature is a metapoem.

Implicit meanings are to be inferred (dedotti).

Guidelines for textual analysis:

•~  Look at the title: it is useful to make predictions about the possible content of a text.

•~  The layout: the form of the text appears on the page.

•~  The structure.

•~  Denotative analysis: it tells about the content of the text.

There are three kind of reader:

•~  Empirical readers: who can read the text as he or she likes without interpreting it;

•~  Intelligent readers: who can read between the lines;

•~  Naive readers: mechanical readers;

•~  Ideal readers: who is able to understand what the poet want to say.

Some word's meaning:

§       Verse à it's a group lines

§       Lines = versi

§       Stanza = strofa

§       Play = opera teatrale (tragedy, comedy, fars, ...)

§       To make sense = dare un significato

§       Forego = anticipare

§       Thus = così (linguaggio letterario)

§       To supporta n interpretation with = supportare un interpretazione con

§       To select soething from something = selezionare qualcosa da qualcosa

§       To aim = avere lo scopo di

§       To exist within = esistere all'interno di

§       Own = proprio

§       Knowledge = conoscenza

§       Courage = coraggio

§       To be replaced = essere rimpiazzato

§       Arbiter = arbitro (letterario)

§       To require = richiedere à to ask for

§       To expect = aspettarsi à riflessivo

To expect somebody/something TO do something

§       To wait for

} = aspettare

§       To await

§       Remote = distante

§       To have a purpose = avere uno scopo

To tackle with:

verb

( DEAL WITH )

[T] to try to deal with something or someone .

There are many ways of tackling this problem.

I tackled him about his careless work.