The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein www.english-culture.com/literature-life Our lives in the end are nothing but stories. Carl William Brown If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. Ludwig Wittgenstein Most definitions of literature have been criterial definitions, definitions based on a list of criteria which all literary works must meet. However, more current theories of meaning take the view that definitions are based on prototypes: there is broad agreement about good examples that meet all of the prototypical characteristics, and other examples are related to the prototypes by family resemblance. For literary works, prototypical characteristics include careful use of language, being written in a literary genre (poetry, prose fiction, or drama), being read aesthetically, and containing many weak implicatures. Jim Meyer