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In his essay “What is Literature?” Rene Wellek provides a historical survey of the term. The most interesting fact, from my perspective? We have to go to Tertullian and Cassian in the second century A.D. to find the term [‘litteratura‘] used for a body of writing. They contrast secular, pagan writing, litteratura, with scriptura, theContinue reading “Litteratura vs. Scriptura”