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Definition of Literature
Literature

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

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Literature Quotations

All literature is political.
LeVar Burton

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer

Remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein

Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley

Literature Translations

literature in Afrikaans is literatuur, letterkunde
literature in Dutch is litteratuur, literatuur, letterkunde
literature in German is Literatur
literature in Hungarian is irodalom
literature in Italian is letteratura
literature in Norwegian is litteratur
literature in Portuguese is literatura
literature in Swedish is lektyr, litteratur


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