Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction.
People may perceive a difference between "literature" and some popular forms of written work. The terms "literary fiction...
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Literature
Award discipline
Awards in this discipline:
- National Book Award for Arts and Letters
- National Book Award for Science Fiction
- National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
- National Book Award for Poetry
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- National Book Award for Fiction
- National Book Award for Children's Books, Picture Books
- National Book Award for Children's Books, Fiction
- National Book Award for Children's Books
Field Of Study
Journals in this discipline:
- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
- Sewanee Review
- Modern Fiction Studies
- The Henry James Review
- American Imago
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- The Emily Dickinson Journal
- Other Voices
- New Literary History
- Children's Literature
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Quotation Subject
Quotations About This Subject:
- One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.
- A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
- Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
- There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
- Remarks are not literature.
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
- Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.
- As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
- How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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From the Database base
Database(s) for this topic:
- Raptor Information System
- LitCentral: Land Bird Edition
- Nicrophorinae Literature Database
- Coleoptera Taxonomic Literature Database
From the Nobel Prizes base
Nobel Awards:
- Sully Prudhomme
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Giosuè Carducci
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Romain Rolland
- Verner von Heidenstam
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