A narrow definition of literature would always imply writing and reading and would exclude those old tales, songs and myths which are directed to those who don't read.
It is applied here to such manifestation of the human spirit, since they serve the same purpose for the unlettered as written literature does for the readers and writers.
The high intelligence of those who went to theater in Athens has often been remarked, but the great mass of them observed, but could not be written.
In the other hand it is through writing that the considered thoughts of man been handed down to become a part of the intellectual world of those who can read, or at least can be of infinitely greater richness than that of the unlettered.
It is not possible to say that an oral literature of one tribe is like that of another: what seemed to an earlier generation to be the working of a very simple law of development,
Appears now as a result of a complex of many forces.
There is not any sharp line of relation between the oral literature of primitive people and that of the unlettered who are surrounded by a civilized society.
Stories of heroes and their success in the face monsters have exercised the inventive imagination of primitive taletellers, but the fictional tales of primitive manure not
Confined for the exploits of heroes.
The difference between the literary and the unlettered literature smoothed over by many transition, perhaps the most interesting of these is the so called flak epic especially
Homes s The Iliad and The Odyssey, they survive in oral for several years before they had written down in Athens.
A CONCLOSION the most potent force making for the production of all literary forms among primitive peoples as in our own culture is the great need for relief of boredom.

 

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