LITERATUR

Literature in the Public Understanding

Literature (Sanskrit: Shastra) is the absorption from the Sanskrit word 'Literature', which means "the text that contains the instruction" or "guidelines", from the base 'Sas' which means "instruction" or "teaching" and 'Tra' meaning "tools" or "medium". In the Indonesian language the word is commonly used to refer to the "literary" or a kind of writing has a particular meaning or beauty.
A somewhat unusual is the use of literature and literary terms. Segmentation definition literature refers more suitable as a mere text. Who's literary aim at literary poetic nuance or abstract. The term of letters is one example, defined as people who wrestle literary, not literature. In addition, in the sense of literature, literature can be divided into literature written or oral literature (oral literature). There is not much literature related to writing, but with the language used as a vehicle to express certain experiences or thoughts.
Literature is divided into 2 Prose and Poetry, Prose is a literary work that is not bound while the poem is a literary masterpiece that is bound by certain rules and regulations. Examples of literature Poetry Poetry ie, Poem, and the poem while the examples of literary prose that is novel, story / short story, and Drama.
Understanding Literature According to the Experts
• Mursal Esten (1978: 9)
Literature or Literature is the disclosure of the facts of artistic and imaginative as the manifestation of human life. (And society) through language as a medium and has a positive effect on human life (humanity).
• Semi (1988: 8)
Literature. is a form of creative art and the work that its object is human and his life using the language as a medium.


• Panuti Sudjiman (1986: 68)
Literature as an oral or written work which has various features advantages such as originality, keartistikan, beauty in the content, and expression.
• Ahmad Badrun (1983: 16)
Literature is the art activities that use language and other symbols line as alai, and be imaginative.
• Engleton (1988: 4)
Literature is a fine piece of writing (belle letters) is the work of the listed forms of language. daily in various ways with the language of compacted, deepened, lapped, in thinned long and reverse, be odd.
• Plato
Literature is the result of imitation or description of reality (mimesis). A literary work must be imitate universe and is a model of reality. Therefore, the lower the value of literature and away from the world of ideas.
• Aristoteles
Literature as other activities through religion, science and philosophy.
• Robert Scholes (1992: 1)
Of course, the literature is a word, not an object
• Sapardi (1979: 1)
Explain that literature is a social institution that uses language as a medium. The language itself is a social creation. Literature display picture of life, and life it self is a social reality.
• Taum (1997: 13)
Literature is a work of fiction that are copyrighted or imaginative "or" literature is the use of beautiful and useful language that signify other things ".