What is the Latin root of Literature?
literatura or litteratura
What does that come from?
from littera
What does that mean?
letter or handwriting
What does literature include?
written productions
Anything written?
no
Which ones?
ones that have artistic or intellectual value
How many ways can it be categorized?
four
Can those categories be broken down further?
yes
in how many ways?
three
Do they separate it by periods?
yes
What about features?
yes
What are those categories called?
genres
When did imaginative works start?
during the Romantic period
What kind of studies deals with literature?
Cultural studies
What types of genres do they use?
cultural and minority
What else?
canonical works.
Has the meaning of literature changed?
yes
When did it mean books and writing?
prior to the eighteenth century
Where?
In Western Europe
Is the current definition more inclusive?
yes