literature

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.tʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

uncountable usually

The body of all written works. / The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

Japanese Meaning

すべての書かれた作品の集まり / 国、民族、集団、または文化に属する創作文学全般

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He turned to literature for comfort during difficult times.

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彼は困難な時期に慰めを求めて文学に頼った。

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Sense（1）

The body of all written works.

Sense（2）

The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

Sense（3）

(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?ʼ The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.

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Sense（4）

Written fiction of a high standard.

However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

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literatures

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