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literature
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[ noun ] (writing) creative writing of recognized artistic value
Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)As an American Catholic of Irish ancestry , I came with certain preconceptions and expectations ; being intellectually influenced by Newman and the general 19th century literature of England , I knew only a Protestant dominated country . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American_War , the steady currency of the Lincoln myth , the increased emphasis on the frontier west in our mass_media are cases_in_point . Nor is it an accident that baseball , growing into the national game in the last 75 years , has become a microcosm of American life , that learned societies such_as the American_Folklore_Society and the American_Historical_Association were founded in the 1880's , or that courses in American literature , American civilization , American anything have swept our school and college curricula . It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point_of_view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine . Related to written literature , and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form , it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence . |
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[ noun ] (writing) the humanistic study of a body of literature
Synonyms Examples "he took a course in French literature" Used in print (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` You and I have fallen out of literature into politics '' , Moreland observed . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
Examples "the technical literature" "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)Electrical literature contained numerous references to lightning that had magnetized iron and had altered the polarity of compass needles . (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)An exhaustive survey was made of the literature , and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued . (The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy , well established precedents , the commitments of the United_States under international charters and treaties , basic statutes , and well understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves , in policy literature such_as country papers and National_Security_Council papers accumulated in the Department . (Allan J. Braff and Roger F. Miller, "Wage-Price...)The purpose of this paper is to analyze one possible force which has not been treated in the literature , but which we believe makes a significant contribution to explaining the wage price behavior of a_few very important industries . The presumption in the literature would appear to be that the basic wage rate would be unchanged in this case , on the grounds that it is `` clearly '' not in the interest of the industry to raise wages gratuitously . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (work,writing) the profession or art of a writer
Examples "her place in literature is secure" Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Among the recipients of the Nobel_Prize for Literature more_than half are practically unknown to readers of English . Related terms |
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