Lit 100 Philippine Literature

What is Literature?
Jim Meyer (1997):
 are written texts
 are marked by careful use of language
 including features such as creative metaphors, well-turned phrases, elegant syntax,
rhyme, alliteration, meter
 are in a literary genre (poetry, prose fiction, or drama)
 are read aesthetically
 are intended by the author to be read aesthetically
 contain many weak implicatures (are deliberately somewhat open in interpretation)
John Cuddon (1976)
 A vague term which usually denotes works which belong to the major genres: epic,
drama, lyric, novel, and short story.
Oxford Dictionary
 written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit