{"id":1018293,"date":"2023-03-08T05:55:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=275897"},"modified":"2023-03-08T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:55:11","slug":"the-ten-essential-powers-of-great-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/08\/the-ten-essential-powers-of-great-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Essential Powers of Great Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a work of literature great? Why, to name but a few, are Hamlet, The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, War and Peace, The Flowers of Evil, Don Quixote, Faust generally considered outstanding examples of world literature? What makes one work of literature superior to another? Why is some literature read for centuries, even millennia,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/the-ten-essential-powers-of-great-literature\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/the-ten-essential-powers-of-great-literature\/\">The Ten Essential Powers of Great Literature<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/the-ten-essential-powers-of-great-literature\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a work of literature great? Why, to name but a few, are Hamlet, The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, War and Peace, The Flowers of Evil, Don Quixote, Faust generally considered outstanding examples of world literature? What makes one work of litera&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018294,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018293\/revisions\/1018294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}