different between literature vs mannerpunk
literature
English
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Alternative forms
- literatuer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English b?ccræft.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.??.t??(?)/, /?l?.t??.t??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t???.t??/, /?l?.t?.t??/
- (Midwestern US) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.t??/
Noun
literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) 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
Derived terms
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:literature
Related terms
- letter
- literal
- literacy
- literate
- literary
Translations
Further reading
- "literature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 183.
Anagrams
- literateur, literatuer
literature From the web:
- what literature did montag preserve
- what literature means
- what literature style replaced romanticism
- what literature was popular in the 1920s
- what literature can teach us
- what literature means to me
- what literary device is this
- what literature is in the public domain
mannerpunk
English
Etymology
manner +? -punk
Noun
mannerpunk (uncountable)
- A subgenre of fantasy literature that takes place within an elaborate social structure and resembles a comedy of manners.
- 1998, "Misha MCM", Blue Eyes (on newsgroup soc.bi)
- I have a fondness for mannerpunk mysteries....
- 1998, "Macedon", Craft of Writing 3 (point of view) (on newsgroup alt.startrek.creative)
- This type of POV is particularly valuable for stories which are heavy on characters and theme, those that "say something." One wouldn't ordinarily choose it for a PWP (plot? what plot?) romp unless engaged in mannerpunk.
- 1998, "Misha MCM", Blue Eyes (on newsgroup soc.bi)
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