Liturgy vs Literature - What's the difference?
liturgy | literature |
A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion.
An official worship service of the Christian church.
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.
As nouns the difference between liturgy and literature
is that liturgy is a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion while literature is the body of all written works.liturgy
English
(wikipedia liturgy)Noun
(liturgies)Derived terms
* liturgical * liturgistliterature
English
(wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)Alternative forms
* 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
