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DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF LITERATURE

♥..Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and L

etters"). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction...♥

FROM WIKEPEDIA, FREE DICTIONARY

♥(n.) The class of writings distinguished

for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.♥

♥(n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.♥

♥(n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.♥

♥(n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings up on a given su bject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.♥ From Thinkexist.com
♥..Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or work of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In m uch, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale..♥
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WHAT DEFINITION I SHOULD PREFER AND WHY???

I will go for the definition of Thinkexist.com. this site cited that literature is the embracing of entire result of the knowledge. People usually thinks what they should conduct and it is part of being rational. We have our sensation that mad e us different from the other creature. Literature is said to be too difficult to define but as long as you read and write and express who you are,you will understand and you will conceptualize what Literature really means to you.

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PAINTINGS

I can say that literature is like a paintings.
It is the master piece of a person who wants to share their talents, their knowledge to others. Paintings has many colors that gives the painting life even if that color is not too good to see. It is also how the painter releases their emotions out of that thing. Just like of what Literature has. It can be a form of poems, prose, essays, fictions but the essence of this is that it leaves people some emotions or some hang questions in their mind that they need to strive for the answer. Paintings lead people in different interpretations especially when the piece is too broad for the people to understand just like what Literature can bring us. But if we seek the real meaning, the r eal purpose of that great masterpiece, w e will be able to understand what is the intention of the authors or the painters and what are the knowledge they wan t to impart to the people. Paintings needed to be attractive to the people so that the painter should set in their mind the color harmony of every color that they will create. Just like Literature, every author should thing for the topic that will catch the attention of the people. Something that is different but relevant in what' s happening in our environment.The author should maintain the trill in the story.

MAN/PEOPLE

I can also relate literature to a man or a people. Any kind of Literature is made by works of the people who has the talents, the powers that is the reason of their existence in the filled of Humanities. While people is created in the image and likeness of God. If Literature is the masterpiece of a person then we people are the obra maestra of our Lord. Literature like people do both have different characteristics. Quite confusing, boring, and sometimes very influential that made everyone change.


☻☻GREAT FILIPI NO AUTHORS☻☻

Estrella Alfon

Most Significant Contribution to Philippine Literature

• She was a storywriter, playwright, and journalist. In spite of being a proud Cebuana, she wrote almost exclusively in English. She published her first story, “Grey Confetti”, in the Graphic in 1935.

• She was the only female member of the Veronicans, an avant garde group of writers in the 1930s led by Francisco Arcellana and H.R. Ocampo, she was also regarded as their muse. The Veronicans are recognized as the first group of Filipino writers to write almost exclusively in English and were formed prior to the World War II.

Alfon was one writer who unashamedly drew from her own real-life experiences. In some stories, the first-person narra tor is “Estrella” or “Esther.” She is not just a writer, but one who consciously refers to her act of writing the stories. In other stories, Alfon is still easily identifiable in her first-person reminiscences of the past: evacuation during the Japanese occupation; estrangement from a husband; life after the war. In the Espeleta stories, Alfon uses the editorial “we” to indicate that as a member of that community, she shares their feelings and responses towards the incidents in the story. But she sometimes slips back to being a first-person narrator. The impression is that although she shares the sentiments of her neighbors, she is still a distinct personality who detaches her self from the scene in order to understand it better. This device of separating herself as narrator from the other characters is contained within the larger strategy of ?distantiation? that of the writer from her strongly autobiographical material. - Thelma E. Arambulo

• In spite of having only an A.A. degree, she was eventually appointed as a professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, Manila.
  
• She was a member of the U.P. Writers Club, she held the National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center in 1979.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

• 1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award.
• 1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays w on all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize).
• 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.”
• 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".
• 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.

WRITING INFLUENCES

Estrella Alfon writes about everyday life. She wrote something that has an impact in the reader and relevant in what's happening in her environment. She could write about the ordinary and make it extraordinary. She could write about a day on the farm or a picnic with friends or a poor laundry woman wishing that her life were different because she was being abused by her mistress. They were very simple stories about ordinary people, whose lives we don't know until she uncovers them in the stories. She was greatly loved by her friend because of his dedication in writing and because of her graveness that even she was jailed because of that she always fight for what she feels and what she had done. DRIVING PRINCIPLE FOR WRITING Estrella Alfon was a writer who drew from her own real-life experiences. Alfon always reminiscencing of what the past is,all the things that happened during the Japanese occupation, and lastly what the Filipino's had felt during the war and what are their lives after the war.All that stated above became her inspiration in writing for the young generations or for the colonizers to felt the things the older people felt to build their patriotism and for them also to have inspiration that we should not let that be happen again.

Nick Joaquin

Most Significant Contribution to Philippine Literature

• Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English Language.
  
• He also wrote using the pen name

• Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National artist of the Philippines for Literature.

Works

• Prose and Poems (1952)
• The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961)
• La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964)
• A Portrait Of the Filipino Artist1966)
• Tropical Gothic (1972)
• A Question of Heroes (1977)
• Jeseph Estrada and Other Sketches (1977)
• Nora Aunor & Other Profiles (1977)
• Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes (1977)
• Reportage on Lovers (1977)
• Reportage on Crime (1977)
• Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings (1977)
• Gloria Diaz & Other Del ineations (1977)
• Doveglion & Other Cameos (1977)
• Language of the Streets and Other Essays (1977)
• Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1977)
• Tropical Baroque (1979),
• Stories for Groovy Kids (1979)
• Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980)
• The Ballad of the Five Battles (1981)
• The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983)
• Almanac for Manileños
• Cave and Shadows (1983)
• The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse (1986)
• Collected Verse (1987)
• Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming (1988)
• Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young (1990),
• The D.M. Guevara Story (1993),
• Mr. F.E.U., the Culture Hero That Was Nicanor Reyes (1995).
• Rizal in Saga (1996)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

• José García Villa's Honor Roll (1940)
• Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949)
• Ten Most Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM), Awardee for Literature (1955)
• Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards (1957–1958; 1965; 1976)
• Harper Publishing Company (New York, U.S.A.) writing fellowship
• Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960)
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961)
• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the City of Manila (1964)
• National Artist Award (1976).
• S.E.A. Write Award (1980)
• Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literat ure (1996)
• Tanglaw ng Lahi Award from the Ateneo de Manila University (1997)
• Several ESSO Journalism awards, including the highly-covetedJournalist of the Year Award.
• Several National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle for The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay in History as Three Generations; The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse; Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming; The World of Damian Domingo: 19th Century Manila (co-authored with Luciano P.R. Santiago); and Jaime Ongpin: The Enigma: The Prof ile of a Filipino as Manager.

DRIVING PRINCIPLE FOR WRITING

Just like Estrella Alfon, Nick Joaquin drew his writings in the things that happened in their time. The time when presidential candidate Benigno Aquino was assassinated and all the events happened in the Marcos regime. Joaquin focused on a family conflict, in which old cultural models are reconciled with modern values. And also Joaquin dealt with the tensions between illusion and reality.

WRITING INFLUENCES

• He writing also build a bridge from modern literature to the religious themes of Spanish heritage and primitive beliefs.

Lope K. Santos

Most Significant Contribution to Philippine Literature

• Lope K. Santos was a Tagalog language writer from the Philippines.

• Aside from being a writer, he was also a lawyer, politician, critic, labor leader and considered as "Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar".

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

• He used Kanseko instead of Canseco for his middle name to show his nationalism. During his time, the letter C had begun falling out of use in favor of the letter K in the Tagalog alphabet.

• He was appointed as director of the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Institute).
  

WORKS

• Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Grammar)
• Banaag at Sikat, a novel

DRIVING PRINCIPLE FOR WRITING

"My last hours on earth have come, but I regret that I will breathe my last without knowing what will happen to the Tagalog language…Whether indeed it will become the national language."

This was quoted by Lope K. Santos and according to my understanding, He want that the Tagalog language will always be use by the Filipino's. Maybe if he was still alive today, he will be so sad not just only sad but he will die because of today's situation. that our own language continue to die. Yes we all still using our language but the question is it still in our hearts?And are we still living for it?

WRITING INFLUENCES

• His life was dedicated to the national aspiration of strengthening the country's values and ideals based on a language that is uniquely rooted in the local or Philippine language.