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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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Wondering why I feel like shit suddenly. Bahaha. Also looking through some online literature about multiverse stuff and quantum physics.
Aleonone (Joe Rosario) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:43:25 -0000
Wondering why I feel like shit suddenly. Bahaha. Also looking through some online literature about multiverse stuff and quantum physics.
@luzzortega wohooo ok sweetie call me haha lov ya & GOOD LUCK tomorrow in ur literature's exam ;D
ItsHaydeAdams (Hayde Martinez) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:41 -0000
@luzzortega wohooo ok sweetie call me haha lov ya & GOOD LUCK tomorrow in ur literature's exam ;D
@davidrankin I fell off this semester but I used to be big on Kevin Phillips and Steve Lansburg. not so much *literature*
eddieftw (eddie martinez) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:31 -0000
@davidrankin I fell off this semester but I used to be big on Kevin Phillips and Steve Lansburg. not so much *literature*
@taniyayaya eh tan literature review kpn buat?
night3173 (Ricko Nugroho) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:39:30 -0000
@taniyayaya eh tan literature review kpn buat?
Then I graduate with a hard to say, polysyllabic, Bachelor of Science in English Language, Literature, and Writing, with a psychology minor.
stevekubacki (Stephen Kubacki) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:38:43 -0000
Then I graduate with a hard to say, polysyllabic, Bachelor of Science in English Language, Literature, and Writing, with a psychology minor.
Q: What/Was Your Favorite School Subject? A: Literature :)
IanJSomerhalder (Ian Somerhalder) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:38:21 -0000
Q: What/Was Your Favorite School Subject? A: Literature :)
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