In “The nature of literature” Culler defines literature from many different angles. I found the most interesting part is “Literature as fiction”. This really stuck with me because Culler describes literature as a way to “have a special relation to the world”. Fiction is something that teleports us outside of ourselves and experiences the world from a different perspective. Rather than being told one-dimensional facts like in non-fiction.  Fiction lets the reader interpret more than what is told. A good example of this would be news articles, the news should be only taken as facts. As for fiction watching a movie with a cliffhanger ending leaves room to ask why this happened and what happens next. Culler says “Literary works refer to imaginary rather than historical individuals” this means anyone could write anything and they are only limited to their imagination.

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