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What is "good" literature?
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Qualitative literature is of timeless significance and can be said to transcend its limitations and peculiarities of the age it is written in. It speaks for what is constant in human nature.
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Where does LH look for meaning?
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LH finds meaning within the text itself, without elaborate processes of placing it in contexts.
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How can you best understand a text?
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By studying it detached it from its context and age; in isolation without any prior knowledge, prejudice or ideological ideas about the text.
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What does LH say on human nature? What is its connection to literature?
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The essence of human nature is unchanging and in qualitative literature it is represented through passions, emotions and situations that reappear.
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What does LH say on the purpose of literature?
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Literatures purpose is the enhancement of life and to propagate human values without agenda or programming. This means that when any literature or criticism becomes overtly or directly political, they lean towards propaganda and lose their function.
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What does LH say on the relationship between form and content?
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Form and content should me fused in such a way that they seem to truly grow into each other. The form of a text (a poem with three verses and rhyming) should not be used for decoration but should be a natural reaction to how the content is best represented.
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What does "sincerity" mean in LH?
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Sincerity is something that lies within the lanuage being used. To express things without over-inflated expressions or clichés. Sincerity should emerge implicitly from an event in literature, it is the ability to express an event in a believable way that makes the lanuage truly enact what it depicts. Sincerity does NOT have to do with what is real or fiction!
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In LH, from "sincerity" grows "silent expressions" and "silent demonstrations". What does this mean?
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Rather than explaining or saying ideas outright, literature can make them emerge implicitly through its own sincerity of language. Any idea is only as good as the event or situation it emerges from. Social status in Pride and Prejudice, for example, not outright discussed but shown instead.
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What is the job of criticism?
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To interpret a piece of literature or text and mediate between the text and a reader. A critic should not speak about the nature of reading or of literature in general, but simply interpret the text from a theoretical point of view that best represents the text.
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