Adabi
duk wani tarin rubuce-rubuce ne, amma kuma ana amfani da shi sosai don rubuce-rubucen da aka yi la’akari da su a matsayin
fasahar fasaha
, musamman tatsuniyoyi, wasan kwaikwayo, da wakoki. A cikin 'yan ?arni na baya-bayan nan, ma'anar ta fa?a?a don ha?awa da wallafe-wallafen baka, yawancin abin da aka rubuta. Adabi hanya ce ta yin rikodi, adanawa, da watsa ilimi da nisha?i, kuma tana iya samun taka rawa a zamantakewa, tunani, ruhi, ko siyasa.
Adabi, a matsayin sigar fasaha, na iya ha?awa da ayyuka a nau'o'in da ba na almara ba, kamar tarihin rayuwa, diaries, memoir, haruffa, da ma?ala. A cikin faffadan ma'anarta, adabi ta ha?a da littattafan da ba na tatsuniyoyi ba, labarai ko wasu bu?atun bayanai akan wani batu.
[1]
Etymologically, kalmar ta samo asali daga
litattafan Latin
/litteratura
"ilmantarwa, rubutu, nahawu," asali "rubutun da aka yi da haruffa," daga
litattafai/littara
"wasika". Duk da haka, an kuma yi amfani da kalmar ga rubutun magana ko wa?a. Cigaba a cikin fasahar bugawa ya ba da damar rarrabawa da ha?akawa da ha?aka ayyukan rubuce-rubuce, wanda yanzu ya ha?a da wallafe-wallafe.
Ana rarraba wallafe-wallafen bisa ga ko waka ne, zance ko wasan kwaikwayo, kuma ana ?ara rarraba irin wa?annan ayyukan bisa ga lokacin tarihi, riko da wasu siffofi na
ado
, ko nau'i.
Ma'anar wallafe-wallafen sun bambanta da lokaci.
[2]
A Yammacin Turai, kafin karni na 18, wallafe-wallafen da aka nuna duk littattafai da rubuce-rubucen wallafe-wallafe za a iya gani a matsayin komawa zuwa tsofaffi, mafi yawan ra'ayi, don haka nazarin al'adu, alal misali, ya ha?a da, ban da ayyukan canonical, shahararrun da 'yan tsiraru. Har ila yau, ana amfani da kalmar a cikin abubuwan da ba a rubuta ba: zuwa "adabi na baka" da "littafin al'adun farko".
Ma'anar shari'ar kimar wallafe-wallafe tana ?aukarsa a matsayin wanda ya ?unshi rubutu mai inganci kawai wanda ya zama wani ?angare na al'adar
belles-lettres
("rubutu mai kyau").
Misalin wannan a cikin (1910-11) <i id="mwSA">Encyclopædia Britannica</i> wanda ya rarraba wallafe-wallafe a matsayin "mafi kyawun magana na mafi kyawun tunani da aka rage zuwa rubutu".
[4]
- ↑
OED
- ↑
Leitch
et al.
,
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
, 28
- ↑
Biswas,
Critique of Poetics
, 538