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What is star literature? Star literature describes Aristotle, a philosopher in ancient Greece, as three different genres. Epic, which is a storytelling text. Lyric, which in that time in ancient Greece was song texts.
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and dramatics. Aristotle studied the most popular star literature works from his time and from that he wrote down definitions of these three genres: Hippie, Lyric and Dramatics. Today we talk about these genres as star literature.
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So, "stjärnlitteratur" is something like epic, novels, novels, sagas, lyrics. And lyrics today, when we talk about lyrics in Swedish, we mean most often writing a lyric that you read in a book or on the internet.
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Dramatik, det har vi ju fortfarande och de flesta av oss ser kanske dramatik idag, inte så ofta som teater men mer i form av filmer. Dramatik i form av filmer, det hör ju alltså till stjärnlitteratur.
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And star literature is such a fantastic genre, because star literature has, unlike other forms of text, such a power of change. That in star literature we have the right to and we must change the language, we must
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change the world by changing the language, by writing in a different way, we can think differently and get other people to think in new ways. Hopefully in a better way. We can see through history how good literary writers have written texts that have changed people's way of thinking and in that way have improved people's living conditions.
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But of course, the film literature can also be entertainment. And one thing that is incredibly good about film literature is what they used to call in antiquity as "katersis", meaning "cleaning" in Swedish. That means that by seeing a play or by reading a narrative text, we get to
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And another big advantage of the Star literature is that it helps us to understand ourselves better and to have a clearer picture of ourselves and our feelings.
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understand other people's way of thinking and other people's feelings both the author's feelings but also when we write fiction we also have to practice compassion and involvement with other people to shape different characters in a story you have to try to put it into understanding how the characters think and feel and why they act as they do
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So, "stereotypical literature" is a very old genre and it is probably absolutely necessary for us as people to use fiction and stereotypical literature to work together in a society and develop ourselves. Stereotypical literature is a fantastic genre, so I highly recommend both reading and writing stereotypical literature.
