Literature vs Narrative - What's the difference?
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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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Written fiction of a high standard.
Telling a story.
Overly talkative; garrulous.
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Of or relating to narration.
The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story.
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As nouns the difference between literature and narrative
is that literature is the body of all written works while narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.As an adjective narrative is
telling a story.literature
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* literatuer (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
- 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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Adjective
(en adjective)- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- the narrative thrust of a film
