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Are newspapers literature?

>> No.19799748

No

>> No.19799762

>>19799748
Why not? It has words, doesn't it? That's all what literature is: words.

>> No.19799771

Yes, so are periodicals

>> No.19799797

>>19799762
Literature has literary language, not any combination of words.

>> No.19799804

>>19799797
I'm pretty sure any article in the New York Times has more 'literary language' than YA trash.

>> No.19799888

>>19799804
And more lies

>> No.19799915 [DELETED] 

>>19799804
this, sorta. literature is a certain use of language, not anything inherent to language. writing from newspapers can become literarure—if used as literature. see Joyce, Pound, or Ashbery.

>> No.19799946

>>19799797
this, sorta. literature is a certain use of language, not anything inherent to language. words from newspapers become literature—if used as literature. see Joyce, Pound, or Ashbery.

>> No.19799956

>>19799946
>literature is a certain use of language
literature is any use of language

>> No.19800155

>>19799956
>literature is any use of language
including your use of it here, faggot?

>> No.19800169

My senior year of high school the history teacher had these free copies of the Wall Street Journal that the school got which he'd just bring to class and we could take. It was comfy as fuck, half-listening to his lecture and skimming the arts and culture section while worrying about what college I was gonna go to. I will always cherish that weird memory and the WSJ to an extent because of it, even if it's just big bank shilling.

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19800180

No

>> No.19800232

>>19800180
I cringe at ur posts, u homosexual, shit-gened subhuman.

>> No.19800248

>>19799804
One could also argue that the users manual that came with the new toaster is literature, and be as equally wrong as you are right now.

>> No.19800397

>>19800180
Saved

>> No.19801701

>>19799762
no

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19802725

>>19800155
Yes

>> No.19802807

>>19800248
>he doesn't read toaster user manuals

>> No.19802845

Newspapers and other similar media have an agenda in their articles. Sure it might develop your literal ability and improve your grammar and other similar things but if you truly want to be "smart" and discern shit from good stuff you have tor real good literature for a start and read good books and not propaganda

>> No.19802867

>>19802845
>Newspapers have an agenda in their articles
Lots of literature have an agenda too. For example, Shakespeare's Richard III was Tudor propaganda for Queen Elizabeth.

>> No.19804438

>>19800169
in the subway in new york they give out free newspapers in the morning called Metro I think it was? Anyway me and another guy used to spend mornings doing the crosswords during English class in our senior year of high school. Good times