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Literature is words set apart in some way
from ordinary everyday communication. In the
ancient oral traditions, before stories and
poems were written down, literature had a
mainly public function-mythic and religious.
As literary works came to be preserved in
writing, and, eventually, printed, their role
became more private, serving as a vehicle for
the exploration and expression of emotion and
the human situation.
Subject by: Stuart Dicker