Answering the Impossible Questions: What is Literature? What is Civilization?

Kiley Hiett, Kira Markus, Ali Rafetto

ENGL 20923

Each person was asked to come up with a ‘definition’-type answer to the questions asked below.

·      “What is literature?”

o   Mary Kate: “Books! It’s the written expression of the human condition.”

o   Madeleine: “The art of written work.”

o   Teryn: “What is it not?”

·      “What is civilization?”

o   Mary Kate: “The inhabitants of a place, but also the culture that they make.”

o   Madeleine: “A group of people that live together with common things about them.”

o   Teryn: “A bunch of people living together.”