Literature Review from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - General, University Hassan II. Casablanca, course: Literary Theory, language: English, abstract: The question of “What is Literature?” has been raised so many times, by so many scholars and researchers, yet it still remains open to discussion; since no answer seems to encompass everything that we tend to call “literature”. In that regard, Terry Eagleton‟s introduction, is one of the most known to have tried to define “Literature”.