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Often, literature is related to history in setting, as with historical fiction. Literature is also frequently bassed on history, as the ideals and themes presented in works of literature are impacted by the history of the culture that produced them.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoLiterature is inseparable with history because all authors write about events that people care about. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." These events that interest people(current events) are preserved for future generations and the people of the future would remember these events as history.
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∙ 12y agoAccording to Aristotle: History tells you what happened, Literature tells you what ought to have happened.
Aristotle said that Literature was 'more reliable and more reasonable' than History (spoudaioterous te Kai dikaioteros).
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∙ 14y agoIt is important to know the history of the author, piece of work. or the time period it is written in/ set in. This is because many times the author would have a reason for using a word, phrase, object, etc. For example, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , the clock tolls three times. However, during Caesar's time, there were no clocks. If one didn't know about the history, they wouldn't catch it. This just strikes the surface of why it is important.
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∙ 10y agoHistory and literature overlap to a great deal, and this is perhaps best summed up in two ways: First, history is really little more than the study of those who wrote. Though oral history (the passing down of events by word of mouth) has a place in historical study, the majority of what historians have used to piece together the events of human past is written material. If a group of people dissolves or disappears, and they left no written records, then a great deal of evidence about their lives will be lost.
Second, a lot of writing that was made to be creative literature (as opposed to, say, strict history or written economic records) serves to help us piece together the history of a nation or people. For example, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was written as creative literature, but the characters in it tell us about the way that the English people viewed certain members of society. Also, a piece of literature like the Ramayana is not viewed as a true history, however it helps us to piece together bits of historical information anyway.
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∙ 10y agohistory and literature both tackles about the past.
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∙ 10y agoliterature and history is that literature is used to report and represent history. The two are, therefore, intertwined with one another.
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∙ 11y agoPlaces n period of time
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