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Definition of Literature |
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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. Related Definitions: Acquaintance, Also, And, As, Beauty, Belles-Lettres, Biblical, Body, Branch, Business, Chemistry, Class, Collective, Contain, Country, Criticism, Distinction, Distinguished, Doing, Embracing, Entire, Essays, Expression, Fancy, For, From, Given, History, In, Knowledge, Learning, Literary, Literature, Occupation, Of, Or, Particular, Period, Poetry, Positive, Preserved, Profession, Reference, Science, Scientific, Style, Subject, The, To, Upon, Which, Whole, With, Work, Writing |
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Literature Quotations
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. Jim Rohn Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T. S. Eliot |
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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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