Literature in Multiliteracy Perspective

This article discusses the importance of literary criticism in multiliteracy perspective. Literary work is an autonomous object. But it has close relationship with the various issues and cultural aspects that underlie the author’s life. Literary works are also dealing with readers with diverse cultural backgrounds. In the development of literary works, they encounter transformation, metamorphosis, or switch mode into film, theater performances, musicalization, comics, digitalization and so forth. Literary works undergo the process of reproduction of various, multilevel and intertext sign systems. The discourse construction in it is not independent, but interconnected with the various discourses beyond. Therefore, the interpretation and criticism of literary works is done with multiliteracy; multiperspective, multimodality, and multidisciplinary. From these points, the concept of literary criticism in multiliteracy perspective begins. Literary criticism is the culmination of the literary works appreciation. Literary criticism in multiliteracy perspective can produce comprehensive meaning because the message is not only seen from a single perspective but also involving various sign systems and other knowledge aspects.