The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

The body (accumulation) of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field.

creative writing of recognized artistic value

published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature"

the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure"

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Literature is broadly defined as any written or spoken material, but the term most often refers to creative works. Literature includes poetry, drama, fiction, and many kinds of nonfiction writing, as well as oral, dramatic, and broadcast compositions not necessarily preserved in a written format, such as films and television programs.

Literary Resources on the Net is a list of annotated links to online sources on literature. While especially strong for english and american literature, it includes links to world literature as well. Words Without Boarders is an online literarary magazine for international literature.

poetry, linguistics.

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Books, magazines, articles, plays, short stories, poems-anything that utilizes the written word.

Written works of fiction and nonfiction in which compositional excellence and advancement in the art of writing are higher priorities than are considerations of profit or commercial appeal.

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 or work of art, 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, plus other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.