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Belles-lettres (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-smallfont-size:85%.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-smallfont-size:100%French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing. In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama. The phrase is sometimes used pejoratively for writing that focuses on the aesthetic qualities of language rather than its practical application. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist.
However, for many modern purposes, belles-lettres is used in a narrower sense to identify literary works that do not fall into other major categories, such as fiction, poetry or drama. Thus, it would include essays, rcits, published collections of speeches and letters, satirical and humorous writings, and other miscellaneous works. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition) says that "it is now generally applied (when used at all) to the lighter branches of literature". The term remains in use among librarians and others who have to classify books: while a large library might have separate categories for essays, letters, humor and so forth (and most of them are assigned different codes in, for example, the Dewey decimal classification system), in libraries of modest size they are often all grouped together under the heading "belles-lettres".
The phrase is sometimes used in a derogatory manner when speaking about the study of literature: those who study rhetoric often deride many language departments (particularly English departments in the English-speaking world) for focusing on the aesthetic qualities of language rather than its practical application. A quote from Brian Sutton's article in Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, "Writing in the Disciplines, First-Year Composition, and the Research Paper", serves to illustrate the rhetoricians' opinion on this subject and their use of the term:
Writing-in-the-disciplines adherents, well aware of the wide range of academic genres a first-year composition student may have to deal with in the future, are unlikely to force those students to venture so deeply into any one genre as to require slavish imitation. The only first-year composition teachers likely to demand "conformity and submission" to a particular kind of academic discourse are those English-department fixtures, the evangelical disciples of literature, professors whose goal in first-year composition is to teach students to explicate belles lettres. Writing-in-the-disciplines adherents, unlike teachers of literature-as-composition, generally recognize the folly of forcing students to conform to the conventions of a discourse community they have no desire to join.
PBA Galleries Sale 626: More than 300 lots of fine literature, from the 18th through the 21st centuries, are included in this exciting auction. Headlining the sale is the Daryl Litchfield collection of Arkham House and H.P. Lovecraft. The collection includes the earliest work by Lovecraft and a near complete collection of Arkham House publications. Many other science fiction and fantasy first editions are also offered, including nearly fifty lots of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, many in the rare original dust jackets. Also featured are more than fifty lots of Black Sparrow press limited editions of the writings of Charles Bukowski, many signed by the author. Other rare literary works from the last 300 years are also offered, including titles by Dickens, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Stowe, Twain, Wilde, and many others.
As we read over the list, my professor and classmates pointed out the lack of diversity among these revered authors. Most are white, male and wrote in English. However, there was one distinction we did not touch upon in our discussion: religion. Predictably, the vast majority of these writers practiced some form of Christianity.
Both survey and upper-level classes could be studying texts of authors of non-Christian religions and delving into the contrasts between these pieces and those of Christian writers. Not only would this give all students the opportunity to learn about more belief systems and cultures, but it would demonstrate how those convictions manifest themselves in writing, just like how Christian symbolism appears and is analyzed in writing.
As we analyze the works of Christian writers, we cannot assume that knowledge of Christianity is ubiquitous. Instead of perpetuating the idea of a default religion, we should strive to read and teach literature written by people of other religions to gain new perspectives and expand the canon of thought. There are so many excellent and influential writers of all faiths and our syllabi should reflect that.
Simona Fine is a McCormick Sophomore. She can be contacted at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected]. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
Literature and fine arts courses help you understand how the attitudes, ideas, and values of individuals, groups, societies, or cultures are represented in their literature, arts, and other creative activities. This area includes surveys of broad topics, courses that focus on significant eras, and courses that focus on a significant writer or artist. Some courses involve the study of a specific literary or artistic genre, and others involve more analytical and abstract approaches to the arts.
A Penrose diagram is a graphical representation of the causal structure of a spacetime, used in general relativity and other branches of physics. It was developed by physicist Roger Penrose in the 1960s as a way to visualize the geometry of a spacetime and to study its properties.
A Penrose diagram can be used to represent the structure of a narrative in a novel or other work of literature. By mapping out the events and connections between characters and plot points, the diagram can help to identify key themes and structural elements of the story.
A traditional plot diagram typically shows the progression of a story over time, whereas a Penrose diagram is a more abstract representation of the relationships between events and characters. It also accounts for the non-linear nature of storytelling and can reveal patterns and connections that may not be apparent in a traditional plot diagram.
While a Penrose diagram can be a useful tool for analyzing the structure of a story, it may not capture all aspects of a work of literature. For example, it may not account for the emotional impact of certain events or the development of characters over time. It should be used in conjunction with other analytical methods to get a more complete understanding of a work.
Yes, Penrose diagrams have applications in various fields such as physics, mathematics, and philosophy. In physics, they are used to study the causal structure of spacetime and in philosophy, they have been used to visualize moral and ethical debates. They can also be used in problem-solving and decision-making processes in fields such as engineering and business.
I'm on the goal to read "fine literature" and can't do it. I looked in the store for a bookshelf and could only find them in the preteen section so I bought one but it only has comic, short story or novel, where can I find a fine literature book?
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As a preteen sim, choose a bookshelf from the living room category and there should be a "fine literature" option. This option replaces "read epic fantasy trilogy" which is present when one is playing as an Adult or teenager. This worked for me, I hope it helps!
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
- Dinner speech, 8 December 1881
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
- Letter to the Millicent [Rogers] Library, 22 February 1894
Delicacy -- a sad, sad false delicacy -- robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 19 September 1877
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.
- "About Play-Acting"
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.
- "The Facts Concerning the Carnival of Crime in Connecticut"
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- quoted in My Father Mark Twain, Clara Clemens
In literature imitations do not imitate.
- More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson