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Scholarship vs Literature - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between scholarship and literature

is that scholarship is a grant-in-aid to a student while literature is the body of all written works.

scholarship

English

Noun

(wikipedia scholarship) (en noun)
  • A grant-in-aid to a student.
  • The character or qualities of a scholar.
  • The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
  • (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
  • (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
  • Synonyms

    * (money to assist a student to study) allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary * (character of a scholar) * (activity of a scholar) * (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars)

    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.
  • *
  • 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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