Not all writing is literature. Sometimes a story is told in a way that deepens the meaning, and makes a work beautiful. This is literature. Literature is when the story is woven like wool into a textile full of complexity and subtlety. In addition to the article we read in class, "Story Versus Literature", I read an article called "Are Literature and Fiction the Same". One of the insights that stuck with me was that literature "can serve as an introduction to a new world of experience." A story may be able to show you a different world, but literature can thrust you into the experience of a different world. Literature isn't contained within what is written on the page, the words create a three dimensional vision that is so much more that what is literally written. It is interesting to think of literature in this way because it really highlights the importance metaphors have in literature. Metaphors can provide authors the ability to make their work more than what is on the page, to give it multiple layers of meaning. Maybe that was one of the purposes of the visual metaphors project we did, to think deeper and more critically so that our writing can be more like literature.
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