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Terry Eagleton. 1996. Introduction: What is Literature. In Literary theory: an
introduction. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
"Introduction : What is Literature?"
If there is such a thing as literary theory, then it would seem obvious that there is
something called literature which it is the theory of. We can begin, then, by raising the
question: what is literature? There have been various attempts to define literature. You
can define it, for example, as 'imaginative' writing in the sense of fiction -writing
which is not literally true. But even the briefest reflection on what people commonly
include under the heading of literature suggests that this will not do. Seventeenth-
century English literature includes Shakespeare, Webster , Marvell and Milton; but it
also stretches to the essays of Francis Bacon, the sermons of John Donne, Bunyan's
spiritual autobiography and whatever it was that Sir Thomas Browne wrote. It might
even at a pinch be taken to encompass Hobbes's Leviathan or Clarendon's History of
the Rebellion. French seventeenth-century literature contains, along with Comeille
and Racine, La Rochefoucauld's maxims, Bossuet's funeral speeches, Boileau's
treatise on poetry, Madame de Sevigne's letters to her daughter and the philosophy of
Descartes and Pascal. Nineteenth-century English literature usually includes Lamb though not Bentham , Macaulay but not Marx , Mill but not Darwin or Herbert
Spencer .
A distinction between 'fact' and 'fiction'; then, seems unlikely to get us very far, not
least because the distinction itself is often a questionable one. It has been argued, for
instance, that our own opposition between 'historical' and 'artistic' truth does not apply
at all to the early Icelandic sagas. l In the English late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries, the w
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