How Does Art Imitate Nature? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Poetry and the Medium of Language
Fiction is the bracketing of first order communicative functions of language. Telling a story for its own sake independently from its reference to the real world is paying attention to the medium of storytelling as such. But not all literature is fiction, there are other features that make it literature, such as metaphor. A newspaper or military report represents just the information it needs to convey. By contrast, in Homer's odyssey we read when the child of mourning, rosy finger at dawn appeared, we admired the island and wondered all over it. The content appears because dawn itself appears.
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