1. The Sociology of Literature
However the word of literature, in German is "literatur", in French "literature", literature as the beautiful written is also used in Europe namely "letterkunde" and in Dutch "belles-letters" (Faruk, 2010 40). ... Literature is social institutions which use language as its medium, and language is a social production. ... Analogously with the explanation of Damono above, Wellek and Warren (1989:109) also gave their explanation about the literature, they say that literature is a social institution, using as its medium language, a social creation. ...
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