Didactic literature

Didactic literature - devoid of common morphological characteristics of all literary works in which literary and aesthetic functions are subordinated to educational function. The main task of the works of didactic literature is to convey useful information, moral and moral teachings, models, models and ideals of living and ideological and political beliefs. According to the concept of Stefania Skwarczyńska, it can be considered as a link in applied literature.

Despite the absence of an internal literary category of "didactic literature", literary genres are included in its composition. These include species that have developed their own forms of teaching content. The most important such species are fairy tales, didactic poem, gnomic poetry, parable, moralitet, utopia, thesis, exemplum, sometimes satire. Within the literary literature include all types of literary literature - children's and young literature, moralizing works, moralistic works, parenic literature. The meaning of the term is liquid - apart from the genres of artistic literature, didactic literature includes often homile, journalistic or agitational-propaganda works.

The fluidity of the category of didactic literature is the result of its origins. The concept of literature as a work of specific aesthetic tasks, which not only differ from utilitarian tasks, but even stand in opposition to them, is a product of romanticism. Therefore, the category of didactic literature was established only in the literary consciousness of the nineteenth century. Previously, in accordance with the maxims of the Horatian poet prodesse et delectare in the utilitarian and aesthetic functions of literature, a close unity was seen.

Conscious literary literature has only been created since the nineteenth century - literary forms, works and early genres are considered as elements of didactic literature only ex post. Bibliography

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