Throughout the latter half of Culler’s “What is Literature and Does it Matter?”, he defines literature through several different angles. The one that I found to be a good descriptor of what literature is was the “Literature as fiction” viewpoint. Here, Culler states that in literature, a lot more than just the character or the setting can be fictional. In literature the grammar, tense, perspective, events, who, what, where, when and why and even the audience are up for interpretation; what is said can not be taken at face value. In fact, it’s even up to the reader on whether or not the literature is studied from an objective or subjective viewpoint. This is unlike non-fiction, where there is not much wiggle room left for interpretation

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