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Literature is the art of written work. The word literature literally means "acquaintance with letters" and authors are sometimes called "men of letters". The four major classifications of literature are poetry, prose, fiction, and non-fiction. Literature may comprise texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction), as well as original imagination, autobiography, and reflective essays. Literatures can be divided according to historical periods, genres, and political influences. The genres include romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, erotica, adventure, etc. Important historical periods include the 17th Century Shakespearean and Elizabethan times, Middle English, Old English, 19th Century Victorian, the Renaissance, the 18th Century Restoration, and 20th Century Modernism. Important political movements that have influenced literature include feminism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-modernism, romanticism and Marxism.
Contemporary life is impossible without reading. The influence of literature, newspapers, scientific journals and magazines on people's mind is great. Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your personality. If a book or an article appeals to you, it arouses lots of feelings and emotions in your heart. The process of reading demands lots of thinking because reading exists not only for entertainment. When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you take the described events close to heart. If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more! Thanks to books and articles we can talk to people of different ages and to those who lives in other countries. Read more and you'll never be bored!
Magazines focus on: private lives and lifestyles of the world's fascinating people (celebrities); the choices people make about their homes, their clothes, their pastimes and passions; photos and features of celebrities' homes, families, parties, weddings, and charity events; beauty and fashion trends: shoes, clothes, lingerie (underwear), diet; sex, romance; fitness/sports; entertaining.
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