What is a literary text?<\/p>\n
In the field of literary studies, a text is, broadly speaking, any object or phenomenon deriving significant artistic or cultural value from a composition of words within it. This will commonly take the form of written material, often fictional or lyrical \u2013 in novels, poetry, printed drama etc. \u2013 but oral phenomena may often be covered on courses too \u2013 such as poetry or plays in performance, or spoken storytelling (as is a key tradition in many cultures without a long history of writing, and is being increasingly promoted as an object for literary study to grant such cultures greater parity of academic esteem in a move away from old pedagogical canons). Increasingly over recent academic history there have been further expansions to the notion of a text, beyond those objects which are the creation of conscious literary design, incorporating many different cases where words combine in a way which is interesting and can be subjected to discussion, analysis and criticism \u2013 found poetry is a prominent example of this.<\/p>\n
Commonly encountered literary texts can be broadly divided into the forms of prose<\/strong>, poetry<\/strong> and plays<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A conceptual definition of ‘literary text’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nReferences<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"