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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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josephbrady (Joseph Brady) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:24:05 -0000
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Wellington City Libraries News Blog - Latest MÄori literature http://tinyurl.com/yan4elh
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heal my back quickly,quicker! my form teacher is hilarious. I want my old literature teacher back!
Lemons_ (Nisha Dass) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:18:05 -0000
heal my back quickly,quicker! my form teacher is hilarious. I want my old literature teacher back!
Sometimes we don't see the similarities in things until we experienced them..like visual art n literature, it's nice chatting w jiayu :)
joyfoofy (Foo Fang Yu) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:17:34 -0000
Sometimes we don't see the similarities in things until we experienced them..like visual art n literature, it's nice chatting w jiayu :)
Oh, I'll miss my English Literature exam today
ebygum (Matt Proctor) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:16:47 -0000
Oh, I'll miss my English Literature exam today
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