... between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. Literature "organized violence committed on ... falsities, on the grounds that since gods and heroes are by definition better than men, they cannot perform such atroc...

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