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| Literature, as a whole, is an art form wherein ideas from the artist’s experience flow to create prose and poetic forms. A great deal of literature stems from man’s myths and the culture surrounding him. Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Snow Country is no different, despite it coming from a culture opposite from the West. Kawabata’s novel is full of the culture and myths of Japan. But to truly understand how myth plays into Kawabata’s novel or into literature in general, one must first understand myth as Terence Hawkes explains it in his introduction to Structuralism and Semiotics. | Literature, as a whole, is an art form wherein ideas from the artist’s experience flow to create prose and poetic forms. A great deal of literature stems from man’s myths and the culture surrounding him. Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Snow Country is no different, despite it coming from a culture opposite from the West. Kawabata’s novel is full of the culture and myths of Japan. But to truly understand how myth plays into Kawabata’s novel or into literature in general, one must first understand myth as Terence Hawkes explains it in his introduction to Structuralism and Semiotics. | ||
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