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literature

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


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Praised by critics, his works became a permanent part of American literature during his lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Then, in West Bloomfield, outside Congregation B’nai Moshe, a synagogue, Gordon Geist, a Republican, was handing out literature for a group called Democrats for Mike Rogers.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

In this podcast they would examine Swift’s lyrics and deconstruct her songs as poems and literature.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

The old metaphor of a tree – a single trunk branching into distinct species – has been quietly replaced in the scientific literature.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

He has a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from UC Berkeley and a master of fine arts in poetry from UC Davis, where he is a professor in the department of Chicana/Chicano studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

The book got me thinking about Homer and his connection to the Irish bards, and then to the oral literatures of the Americas and spoken poetry today, how each builds on what came before.

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

Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger


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