Syllabus
     Session 1 : Introduction and an overview of literature
     Session 2 : Genre in literature
     Session 3 : Literary history
     Session 4 : Presentation 1
     Session 5 : Presentation 2
     Session 6 : Presentation 3
     Session 7 : Quiz 1
     Session 8 : Mid test
     Session 9 : An introduction to novel
     Session10 : An introduction to poetry
     Session 11: An introduction to Plays
     Session 12: Quiz 2
     Session 13:Theoretical approach to literature
     Session 14: Theoretical approach to literature
     Session 15: Quiz 3
     Session 16: Final Test
             What is Literature
   The term literature is debatable. You 
    will be struck by the vagueness of its 
    usage as well as an inevitable lack of 
    substance to define it.
                 What is literature?
    Literature is referred to as the entirety of 
     written expression with the restriction that 
     not every written document can be 
     categorized as literature The definitions, 
     therefore, usually include additional 
     adjectives such as “aesthetic” or “artistic” 
     to distinguish literary work from texts of 
     everyday use such as telephone books, 
     newspapers, legal documents and 
     scholarly writings. (Klaer, 1998, 1) 
    Eagleton, 1996:
    • There have been various attempts to define literature. 
     You can define it , for example as ‘imaginative writing’ 
     in the sense  of fiction-writing which is not literary true. 
    • Seventeenth-century literature include Shakespeare, 
     Webster, Marvel, and Milton; but also stretches to the 
     essays of Francis Bacon, the sermons of John Donne, 
     Bunyan’s spiritual autobiography and what ever that 
     Sir Thomas Browne wrote. Nineteenth-century English 
     literature usually include Lamb (though not Bentham, 
     Macaulay(Though  not Marx), Mill (but not Darwin, 
     Spencer). Thus, a distinction between fact and fiction 
     will not do in defining literature
    Eagleton further define literature by 
    its peculiar usage of language. “ 
    Literature transforms and intensifies 
    ordinary language, deviates 
    systemically from everyday speech”
    For example: a murmur “Thou still 
    unravished bride of quietness”