Sentence examples for functions of literature from inspiring English sources
One of the functions of literature is to please and to entertain; and the essay, as it grew into the biggest literary domain of all, did not lose the art of providing escape.
It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no ground for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God,' etc.
One of the utilitarian functions of literature is to enlarge the domain of our experience.
Wellek and Warren discuss several proposed functions of literature, beginning with Horace's proclamation that literature must be "sweet and useful" (dulce et utile; have a coalescing aesthetic and functional role), and extending to literature as a substitute for travel and experience, a vehicle for truth or persuasion, to relieve or incite emotion, or as something without a function.
The same changing attitude toward the function of literature and the same shift toward realism can be observed in Turkey.
Questions concerning readership and governmental censorship, function of literature, history and fictionality, memory and writing, and the aesthetics of qing (emotion).
"The function of literature is not to change the political realities in Egypt or anywhere else," he said in an interview.
Bai was the informal leader of a group of poets who rejected the courtly style of the time and emphasized the didactic function of literature, believing that every literary work should contain a fitting moral and a well-defined social purpose.
Other writers of the period, convinced that the essential function of literature was artistic and not propagandistic, formed schools such as the "Neosensualists" led by Yokomitsu Riichi and Kawabata Yasunari.
