Literature
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Writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest. The body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age. (Webster, 3d ed) |
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the body of literary works; TN 121: differentiate from BIBLIOGRAPHY; relation to BOOKS: Manual 33.11 |
Literature Categories.
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Anecdotes - Brief accounts or narratives of an incident or event. |
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Aphorisms and Proverbs - Short popular sayings effectively expressing or astutely professing general truths or useful thoughts. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p97, p1556) |
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Bible - The book composed of writings generally accepted by Christians as inspired by God and of divine authority. (Webster, 3d ed) |
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Biography - A written account of a person's life and the branch of literature concerned with the lives of people. (Harrod's Librarians' Glossary, 7th ed) |
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Drama - A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving various characters, usually intended to be acted on a stage and to be regarded as a form of entertainment. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed) |
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Literature, Medieval |
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Literature, Modern |
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Medicine in Literature |
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Mythology - A body of stories, the origins of which may be unknown or forgotten, that serve to explain practices, beliefs, institutions or natural phenomena. Mythology includes legends and folk tales. It may refer to classical mythology or to a body of modern thought and modern life. (From Webster's 1st ed) |
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Philology - The study of literature in its widest sense, including grammar, etymology, criticism, literary history, language history, linguistic history, systems of writing, and anything else that is relevant to literature or language viewed as literature. Philology as a discipline has both philosophical and scientific overtones. |
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Poetry |
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Wit and Humor - The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed) |
Literature Definitions and Terms
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