The term itself might not be to everyone's liking, but I'm quite passionate about the idea that literature is of use not only as a form of entermainment or a source of pleasure (though it is most definitely both) but something also more akin to therapy and I would like to gauge the opinions of people on the forum.
I'd prefer it if there were no long tracts of the art for art's sake or all art is quite useless variety; not because I am dismissive of this viewpoint but because I am fully aware of it having been a disciple of Wilde, Pater, and other aesthetes at one time.
Also, as a side note to those who still consider Wilde's Preface to Dorian Gray as a manifesto for true appreciation of literature, as with all of Wilde's work it is important to bare in mind that he was a master of irony and did not hold sincerity in high regard.