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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.

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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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Now enrolled in three writing classes and an independent study for literature. Better get my creative juices flowing
CourtneyWoods (Courtney Woods) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:36:26 -0000
Now enrolled in three writing classes and an independent study for literature. Better get my creative juices flowing
It's 3 in the morning and I am writing notes for my literature lesson. CRAP
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It's 3 in the morning and I am writing notes for my literature lesson. CRAP
@elibraden I will! He never has time for Twitter because he's busy writing lectures and literature and taking care of our family. Chump. xo
caissie (Caissie St.Onge) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:28:28 -0000
@elibraden I will! He never has time for Twitter because he's busy writing lectures and literature and taking care of our family. Chump. xo
suddenly into arts.... classic literature... drawing... writing.... composing.... music... and mny other stuff... weird obsession >.<
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@jod_writer Literature! Literary criticism and I'm writing a novel as well.
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