Frances to listers...
Permit me to state my tentative ideas on literature and invite
correction.
1
Literal writing can be of scripture or literature, and if it is
mass produced by means of orthal scribing in a scroll or graphal
printing in a binder or digital pressing in a disk and screening
in a monitor, then it is furthermore a published publication and
of publicature.
2
The source of literature is from the grammar of verbal language,
and when given in the written form of lingual symbols it will
variously be statements as texts and narratives as documents and
discourses as manuscripts.
3
Literature defined in the broadest way is globally perhaps a
liberal art of the humanities, regardless of whether it is bad or
good. Some bad literature however may not be agreed as fine art,
but all literature will be some kind of applied art as say a
product of craft or design. Some good works of literature
specifically used as nonart in say tech and science would
nonetheless remain intrinsically and genetically as nonfictional
liberal art, unless later agreed to be a work of verbal fine art
or a product of verbal applied art.
4
Literature as a liberal art can clearly be of fiction or faction
as nonfiction. Fiction would be stories like imaginative tales.
Faction would be stories like personal diaries, or theories like
speculative philosophies and interpretive histories. Of course,
not all these kinds of literature would be a subsequent candidate
as fine art. Indeed, literature defined in the narrowest way and
even as liberal art or fine art would often exclude dairies and
factions all together.
5
Literary literature as fiction may be a way of classing some
poems and poesies and novels as good, and thus also as fine art.
The verbal fine arts in oral or gestal or literal form may by
default, when agreed as good poetry or prosey or litry, need not
progress beyond fine art to become liberal art or applied art.
The verbal fine arts already likely serve the function of
classing literary liberal art in candidacy as fine art.
6
The term "literary" seems to be a thorny label here, and much
more so than the term "literature" might be. There may also be a
place for a term like "litry" in some instances. The verbal fine
arts for example can include some ancient stories in literal form
made by primitive persons in their native aboriginal environments
that may be better classed as literic litry, rather than literary
literature, because of the limits imposed by their lingual
techne, so that litry need not necessarily be written or
published as scripture or literature in the modern manner.
7
The terms "book" and "page" has been temporarily eliminated here
in this current discussion, especially because the digital
hypertext of visual multimedia in websites or cyberspace on the
internet have radically changed what may be traditionally meant
by these labels.
