Assertion: literature | /r/HasProperty | committed
Facets:
value: from the ancient forms of words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: To say that literature ought to be committed is thus to say nothing less than it should become self-consciously aware of its own essence as a situated solicitation of the reader to take up the world as a project.
text: The date at which these manuscripts were penned is no criterion of the date at which their contents were first written, for many of them contain literature which, from the ancient forms of words and other indications, must have been committed to writing at least as early as the 7th century.