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literature

[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] / ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə- /


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“At Iowa, I was drawn to those who were writing about worlds that were far away from literature and academia,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It seems like you are heavily inspired by literature, more so than other artists would be by just general music and listening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Set in the fictional Westish College in Wisconsin, “The Art of Fielding” is about the romance of baseball and literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"And then I found in the literature that the same gene which is responsible for hairlessness in dogs is responsible for a reduced number of teeth, indicating that these were Peruvian hairless dogs."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

This time around I’m fascinated with the lineage of oral literatures.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Many early pages chronicle the poet’s youthful Wanderjahre in Europe, but almost nothing is said about his 25 years as a Harvard professor of European languages and literatures.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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