What does literature mean to you?

Literature is important topic for history and people`s life.People should know their literature,what happened in the past or how genre about pieces.Actually even if my department is literature ı do not like so much.Because it is very long,sometimes it can be so boring.I do not know about my literature almost all but I learn English literature:)I must learn because I responsible for thıs course.In our lıterature only I know ımportant thıngs and pıeces.So literature is not ımportant for me.