Terjemahan dari artikel berjudul mengenai kajian sastra
By
Audi Alya
Monday, April 25, 2022
Literature is a topic of conversation that has certainly been discussed from time to time and from generation to generation. Literature is also often said to be something fictional and full of imagination. And many also say from several groups that literature is only about poetry and pantun.
Not to mention the lovers and connoisseurs of literature who have their own definitions of literature. So we are faced with the question, what is the definition of literature? The question is very simple, but not many people can answer it, because they are unable to describe it. But isn't literature too aesthetic to be answered perfunctorily and with minimal interpretation? This shows that literature is multi-interpretable or feels like it is always in the justification phase.
I wrote a discussion like this because I wanted to know the many definitions of literature that have been defined by the figures. And the purpose of this discussion is so that not only I can know the many definitions of a literary word. The benefits that we can take from this discussion are the many definitions of literature that we have obtained so that we will not be confused in answering the question of what the definition of literature actually is.
Etymologically, literature comes from the word "su" (good) and "sastra" (from Sanskrit, which means writing). So etymologically, literature is a good writing or composition or a beautiful composition. And the understanding itself can be the complete essence of literature. The aspect of beauty in literary works is not perfect if it is not associated with truth. And truth itself must be associated with true and beautiful values.
Literary works must be able to promise readers or lovers of literature sensitivity to the values of life. Literature is an art of language. Literature is a spontaneous expression of feelings experienced by someone. Literature is thought in language, the thought in question is about ideas, feelings, thoughts, and a person's mentality.
The figures who define literature are Wallek and Warren 1993 (in Suyatmi, 2006) who describe several definitions, including the first, literature is everything that is written and printed, for example in social sciences what is written is literature. Second, literature is limited only to "masterpieces", namely only books that stand out in literary form and expression.
