A theory of literature

Literature, I am learning, is the narrative response to individual narrativity. By this I mean that Literature takes up the stories we experience or tell our selves, or have overheard, and through analogies twists these stories into shapes that we wouldn't expect.

I put this differently in notes earlier today:
Great Narratives (novels, film, autobiography, some poetry, philosophy, theology, theory) take up our daily narration through close approximations of our stories (analogies)and puts them in a "whirlwind", returning our narratives in new forms. When we engage these Great Narratives we construct a new narrative figuration of common stories about life, psychology, the social realm, politics, ethnicity, culture, theology, religion...