do you think that ficion is related to literature?

[kitzburaq2]

my question is that how to connect fiction to the litreture
please share your veiws
And I preserve’t bangkok language school (http://www.csiplanet.com) to achieve it yet again

[Jassy Melson]

All fictional writing would be included in the field of literature; that is, literary endeavor.

[PeterL]

It is true; all fiction is literature, but not all literature is fiction.

[hazelk]

It is true; all fiction is literature, but not all literature is fiction.

True True True.

[Gladys]

If literature is taken to mean:


written material such as poetry, novels, essays, etc., esp works of imagination characterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest {Collins English Dictionary}

then only the best of fiction may qualify as literature.

[Seasider]

I think that is too narrow a definition. Literature is the written record of the culture of a society. If it were necessarily imaginative any work of philosophical enquiry would not be included. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman deserves its place in Eng Lit. as does John Locke's work on the nature of human understanding.Fiction has the added ingredient of the use of the imagination.

[PeterL]

A less restrictive definition of literature.

Any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills: literature describing company products.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literature

[JCamilo]

then only the best of fiction may qualify as literature.

Gladys, just do a small exercise:

If you will say if food is good or not, first you must determine if it is food, right? A pile of paper is not good or bad food, it is not food at all.

So, what are you prosing is judging the quality of a work to determine what it is. But your critery to judge is literary merit, so you must first assume it is literature.

[Heteronym]

I think it's time to evoke the wisdom of the great G.K. Chesterton on this matter: (http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/penny-dreadfuls.html)

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. A work of art can hardly be too short, for its climax is its merit. A story can never be too long, for its conclusion is merely to be deplored, like the last halfpenny or the last pipelight.

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But people must have conversation, they must have houses, and they must have stories. The simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important. Every one of us in childhood has constructed such an invisible dramatis personae, but it never occurred to our nurses to correct the composition by careful comparison with Balzac.