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Literature vs Grammatist - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between literature and grammatist

is that literature is the body of all written works while grammatist is (historical) a teacher of prose literature and letters in ancient greece.

literature

English

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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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    grammatist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
  • * 1907' (Mar.), L. F. Anderson, "A Study of the Prototypes of the Modern Non-professional School among the Greeksand the Romans", ''The Pedagogical Seminary'', ' 14 (1): 1-38.
  • The grammatist , apparently, taught literature in so far as it was read while the citharist taught the poetry which was usually sung.
  • * 1909 , Lewis Flint Anderson, History of Common School Education , page 12
  • The Athenian child's school education began with the study of letters under the grammatist .

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