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.

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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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“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
benedettamamma (Dana) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:18:25 -0000
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
@yimathing I remember Kujo! haha It was scary. I wrote an adaptation for a literature to movie class... a rabid chihuahua named Cujito.
StaceyJR (Stacey ) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:17:45 -0000
@yimathing I remember Kujo! haha It was scary. I wrote an adaptation for a literature to movie class... a rabid chihuahua named Cujito.
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22:30 The Strand: The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day.
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we value the best things more as our experience, knowlege & emotions deepen: music, paintings, literature..pets; humans only rarely. sad..
jamesthomson57 (James Thomson) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:08:06 -0000
we value the best things more as our experience, knowlege & emotions deepen: music, paintings, literature..pets; humans only rarely. sad..

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