This paper aims to discuss and reflect on how to conceptualize the literature, searching the literary theories in textbooks and in the speeches of faculty definitions used for the same. Understanding that, depending on the weather, the space in which we speak to see how literature is not the same ratings have been worked since Aristotle in ancient Greece up to the present day; sometimes conceiving literature as word art, mimeses, Aristotelian concepts, sometimes seeking elements that could select a work as belonging to literature, literariness, at other times focusing on the ideology and seeing the canons the answer to that question. We also analyzed textbooks, facing the first year of high school, whose concepts are summarized Aristotle's ...