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The religious discourse convenes with the literary discourse In many aspects. The former is considered to be a godly message sent to selected individuals whereas the later is believed to be given to the gifted by hidden forces. The religious and literary discourses also converge in using language for rhetoric as well as reporting purposes. They are both artistic discourses known to be of a high degree of precision; therefore, they have parallel and adverse relationships. In the Arabic and Islamic cultures, for example, the pre Islamic poetry was more influential than the religious discourse. However, when Islam came, it belittled poetry which resulted in people using it to serve the religious discourse instead of using it for its own sake. Although there were still trials to make the literary discourse regain its position by focusing on the social values, this didn’t help to change the marginal and low status it began to occupy. The biggest step to remedy the deteriorating status of the literary discourse was in romanticism. However, the rhetoric trials that followed the romanticism which caused the literary discourse to isolate itself and seek independence from other discourses worsened the status to which the literary discourse had reached at that time. This independence deepened by the modern critical views strips the literary discourse from "meaning" and action except for the artistic functions. So have the recent changes contribute to the "death" of the literary discourse?
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