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Literature vs Works - What's the difference?

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Literature is a synonym of works.


As nouns the difference between literature and works

is that literature is the body of all written works while works is .

As a verb works is

(work).

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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    works

    English

    (wikipedia works)

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • (plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
  • (plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
  • *, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
  • Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
  • (plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.
  • Derived terms

    * brassworks * bronzeworks * clayworks * copperworks * freezing works * good works * ironworks * metalworks * skunkworks * steelworks * waterworks

    Verb

    (head)
  • (work)
  • See also

    * in the works * the whole nine yards * the whole shebang

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