Video Upload Options

“Literary texts” are verbal works—written or oral—that are primarily organized and valued for their aesthetic, imaginative, and rhetorical qualities rather than for direct practical or instructional purposes ^[1]. They conventionally include genres such as poetry, drama, narrative fiction, and certain forms of the essay, in which language is deliberately shaped through devices like figurative expression, patterned sound, narrative structure, and thematic layering to invite sustained interpretation and multiple possible readings ^[2]. What distinguishes literary texts from predominantly informational or technical discourse is the foregrounding of “literariness,” that is, the use of formal and semantic features of language to create complexity, fictionality, and a self-conscious play with meaning and form ^[1]. Although the boundary between literary and non-literary discourse can be historically flexible, literary texts are conceptually defined as those verbal artefacts whose structure, style, and representational strategies are designed to be read as artistic compositions and to reward attention to textuality, fictionality, rhetoricity, and historicity ^[2].