LITERATURE! A new experience, a new knowledge!

A little bit about me and Literature!

Hi, my name is Erika Girón!

 I´m a student of the University of El Salvador (UES) taking my major in the department of the foreign languages. I´m twenty years old and I really love English, though it is not easy but is part of my life. Also, I enjoy spending my time with my family and friends. Furthermore, a thing that I really enjoy is to read science fiction books, novels and whatever book I find interesting is being red to get the last pages into my own. I do not have to much time to read during the sunny day. So, I read at night ( when I have already done my homeworks). However, when studying it is hard to do it, because there are a lot of books to read about the courses being taken in the major (books full of knowledge, but not really exciting as the ones I read for entertainment), reading a novel or a science fiction book is a way to take out the stress and open to new worlds and feelings. I feel very exciting with this new course of Literature, because it leave me open to new knowledge for the brain and for the brain of everybody who is taken this course in an interesting way!

Literature

LITERATURE (from the Latin Littera meaning 'letters’ and referring to an experience with the written word) is the written work of a specific culture, sub-culture, religion, philosophy or the study of such written work which may appear in poetry or in prose. 

Literature, in the west, originated in the southern Mesopotamia region of Sumer (c. 3200) in the city of Uruk and flourished in Egypt, later in Greece (the written word having been imported there from the Phoenicians) and from there, to Rome. Writing seems to have originated independently in China from divination practices and also independently in Mesoamerica and elsewhere.

There are some books that I think you already now as the Homero´s books: The Iliad and Odyssey. Both are considered to be of the ANCIENT LITERATURE.

Here, is a video about the genres of literature :

"Literature is an expression of society just like the word of a human being."

 

-Louis Gabriel Ambroise.