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Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.
Introduction
Nations can have literatures, as can corporations, philosophical schools or historical periods. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a nation, for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The Hebrew Bible, Persian Shahnama, Thirukural, Beowulf, the Iliad and the Odyssey and the Constitution of the United States, all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
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My mum just told me she's sold all my old textbooks, including my literature books. I am a sad boy.
tongrhj (Jared Tong) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:50:02 -0000
My mum just told me she's sold all my old textbooks, including my literature books. I am a sad boy.
@markus_weber Just got the literature list from Linköpings university via @mauleDigitaul http://bit.ly/6cGyQy looks interesting.
fluxd (Fredrik Lindersson) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:46:21 -0000
@markus_weber Just got the literature list from Linköpings university via @mauleDigitaul http://bit.ly/6cGyQy looks interesting.
Recent Proliferation of Empirical Research on the SCC - A Literature Review: Since the advent of the Charter of.. http://bit.ly/6G8eut
LawyerNexus (LawyerNexus) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:52 -0000
Recent Proliferation of Empirical Research on the SCC - A Literature Review: Since the advent of the Charter of.. http://bit.ly/6G8eut
http://twitpic.com/r00jr - Fakhreldine Serves up the catering at the Palestine Festival of Literature - Philip Mould Gallery Dover Street Ma
fakhreldine (Fakhreldine London) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:41:27 -0000
http://twitpic.com/r00jr - Fakhreldine Serves up the catering at the Palestine Festival of Literature - Philip Mould Gallery Dover Street Ma
@BrisbaneGirl Scout and Cordelia (Lear) are my favourite names from literature. I like Regan too but she was a biatch
Taezar (Taezar) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:40:21 -0000
@BrisbaneGirl Scout and Cordelia (Lear) are my favourite names from literature. I like Regan too but she was a biatch
Got so much to doooooo u_u art, maths, literature, gotta do a presentation BLAH oh and got some sewing to do. I just wanna sleep...
stitchsophie (Sophie Kay) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:39:55 -0000
Got so much to doooooo u_u art, maths, literature, gotta do a presentation BLAH oh and got some sewing to do. I just wanna sleep...
The Encyclopedia Mythica - On-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, containing definitions of deities, fabulous creatures and places, as well as images and stories.
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Becka's Mythology Pages - Covering mythical creatures, retellings of folktales, and a section on lost lands.
Folklore - Online course materials by Mary Magoulick, Georgia College and State University.
Folklore and Myth, Fables and Tall Tales - Folktales and proverbs from around the world, and reference lists of deities and legendary creatures and lands.
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Folklore Home Page - Online course materials offered by the College of Siskiyous.
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Forms of Folklore, The Verbal Arts - Arizona University lecture course examining form and function of the traditional verbal arts.
My Folklore Courses Home Page - Online course materials including overviews and definitions, from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Oral Lore - Listing of categories and examples of oral lore.
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The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought - Study by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896) into the history of childhood (PDF files).
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Traditional Literature - Outlines the origins and characteristics of folktales, and the various genres of traditional literature.
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