Definition literature and prose

Definition of literature according to experts

1.Panuti Sudjiman (1986 : 68)

literature as an oral or written work that has various characteristic features such as originality, artistry, beauty in content and expression

2 Literature According Semi

Literature  is a form of creative art and the work of the object is a human being and his life using the language as a medium.

3. Literature According Mukarovsky, E.E. Cummings, and Sjklovski
Literature is a work of fiction that is the result of creation by a spontaneous surge of emotion that is capable of expressing the aesthetic aspects of both the aspects of language as well as aspects of meaning

4. Literature According to Wellek and Warren
 Literature is a creative activity, a series of works of art.

5. Literature According to Eagleton
Literature is a fine piece of writing (belle letters) is a work recorded form of the language. daily in various ways with the language solidified, didalamkan, lapped, dipanjangtipiskan and reversed, made odd.

6. Literature According to Aristotle

Literature as other activities through religion, science and philosophy.

7.Literature According Taum

Literature is a copyrighted work or a fiction that is both imaginative "or" literary use of language is beautiful and useful indicating other things "

8. Literature According to Lefevere
Literature is a description of human experience that has dimensions of personal and social as well as well as the knowledge of humanity that is parallel to the form of life itself.

9. Literature According to Robert Scholes
literature that is a word, not an object

10. Mursal Esten

Stating literature or literature is an expression of the fact as a manifestation of artistic and imaginative human life (and society) melaluibahasa as a medium and has a positive effect on human life (humanity).

Definition of Prose

1.      Samuel Coleridge described prose as “ Words in their best order, where poetry is the best words in the best order. “ Prose includes different genres of fiction such as mystery, action, romance and others. It also includes non-fiction texts such as essays, scientific reports or newspaper articles. The distinction can be complicated when writers switch back and forth between the two forms.

2.      Prose is a type of epic literature that is written in lines. Usually sentences in prose continuous in that line, not in another one. Some authors (writers) say that writing prose is the best form of writing, because words are in their best order.

Prose is a communicative style that sounds natural and uses grammatical structure. Prose is the opposite of verse, or poetry, which employs a rhythmic structure that does not mimic ordinary speech. (Willa Cather)