literary_work has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) imaginative or creative writing

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

The second timely part of_this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary_works and the ephemeral mass_culture products of today .

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

Most students of literature , whether they call themselves scholars or critics , are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary_works as_well_as to enjoy them .

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