Artistry vs Literature - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between artistry and literature

is that artistry is significant artistic skill while literature is the body of all written works.

artistry

English

Noun

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  • Significant artistic skill.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry , director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

    Related terms

    * art * artist

    literature

    English

    (wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)

    Alternative forms

    * literatuer (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The body of all written works.
  • The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
  • All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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    • 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?? 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.
  • 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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    Related terms

    * letter * literal * literacy * literate * literary

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