OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15355

literature

/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
literatura
The body of all written works.
literatura
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
He’s studying English literature at university.
There’s a vast body of scientific literature on the subject.
literatura
All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
In fact, information on when each of the terms first appeared in English, and if obsolete, how long they persisted, is entirely absent from the literature.
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…