Understanding culture through literary texts

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become more and more interested in culture. They want to

know not only how cultures of different countries collaborate together but also what common and different features they have. And literature is definitely the best source of such information because it allows us to analyze dipper the peculiarities of cultures from all over the world. Literature being first of all the epitome of a language's power, is the maximum of its potential as a tool to make sense of the abstract. It is a common fact that each culture has its own language (or dialect), so the literature is like a portrait of this culture.

first of all the epitome of a language's power, is

the maximum of its potential as a tool to make sense of the abstract. It is a common fact that each culture has its own language (or dialect), so the literature is like a portrait of this culture. A literary text is the cultural prism through which the author sees the world, and in studying this we can learn a great deal about the time and place that a piece of literature originated from. This is also why it is said that the best literature is the one that is well anchored in society and history. “

and its connections with culture. To fully cover this topic,

we plan to analyze how literature reflects culture of the country in certain time period by providing some examples of key literary works.

culture
To identify features of the literary text
To consider

the relationships between culture and literature
To see in what ways culture can be reflected in literary texts
To understand the role of the literature in self-awareness of the culture

to find out people’s opinion about relations of literature and

culture. Using the results of such survey we plan to understand more deeply this topic and reveal its gap and weak points of the studies that have already been done in this sphere.

research will be useful and valuable for those scientists who

describe the relations between literature (especially language) and culture. Our findings will help them to understand this topic more deeply because (as we said at the beginning) this issue hasn’t been fully covered yet.

our work into:
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