Literature

Japanese: literature
Literature

...This is natural, since in times when science was not yet fully developed, studying meant reading old books, and on the other hand, rhetoric, or the literary approach, dominated all areas of human culture. However, when we say literature in modern Japanese, we can think of it as having roughly the same meaning as literature in modern Western languages ​​(however, the meaning of "literature" that literature has in literature is not included in the Japanese word "bungaku"). In addition to being one of the arts, this word is also used as a general term for the literary works of a nation or a period of time.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "literature" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…まだ科学が十分に発達しない時代には,勉強するとは古い本を読むことを意味した以上,これは当然のことであり,また一方,修辞学(レトリック)が,つまり文学的な取扱い方が,あらゆる人間文化の領域を支配していたからでもある。しかし,現代日本語で文学という場合は,だいたい近代西洋語のliteratureとほぼ同じ意味をもつと考えてよい(ただしliteratureのもつ〈文献〉という意味は日本語の〈文学〉という言葉には含まれていない)。この言葉は芸術の一つというほかに,一民族ないし一時期の文学作品の総称としても用いられる。…

※「literature」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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