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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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@pinkbagels 1) I did not say non-literary = low quality. 2) There are two definitions of literature. http://bit.ly/7yKSdd
shadowsun7 (Eli James) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:34 -0000
@pinkbagels 1) I did not say non-literary = low quality. 2) There are two definitions of literature. http://bit.ly/7yKSdd
LA Times on literature and the possibilities, and possible pitfalls, of twittering: http://bit.ly/6fx6jN
sarabandebooks (Sarabande Books) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:34 -0000
LA Times on literature and the possibilities, and possible pitfalls, of twittering: http://bit.ly/6fx6jN
Are Tweets Literature? Rick Moody Thinks They Can Be http://bit.ly/90zSyH
loosy94 (loosy sam) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:33 -0000
Are Tweets Literature? Rick Moody Thinks They Can Be http://bit.ly/90zSyH
@shadowsun7 And is 'literature' necessarily 'quality'? There's some overthinking here, IMO. Shortening it to 'lit' also has implications.
pinkbagels (pinkbagels) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:18:58 -0000
@shadowsun7 And is 'literature' necessarily 'quality'? There's some overthinking here, IMO. Shortening it to 'lit' also has implications.
The Hustyn' Chronicle (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts). http://j.mp/8ffaeT
europe_book (New Europe Books) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:17:47 -0000
The Hustyn' Chronicle (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts). http://j.mp/8ffaeT
New Blog Post: And Then There Were None: "Literature by Women" scheduled Agatha Christie's murder-mystery, set on a... http://bit.ly/4MNdPe
balletbookworm (Melissa W.) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:16:17 -0000
New Blog Post: And Then There Were None: "Literature by Women" scheduled Agatha Christie's murder-mystery, set on a... http://bit.ly/4MNdPe
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