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(literature) Relating to antiliterature; defying the conventions of literature.
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(literature) Written works that deliberately avoid the typical conventions of literature, such as antinovels, antiplays and antipoems.
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(literature, by extension) Any style of writing that deviates from the norm of technical conventions used in writing literature.
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(film) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of auteurism
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Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
adj
Characteristic of an author.
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Like an author; authorly.
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In the manner of an author.
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One versed in belles-lettres.
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Alternative spelling of belles-lettres [(obsolete) The humanities.]
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(archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics.
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Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
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The writing of belles-lettres
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Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.
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Alternative form of belletristic [Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.]
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Alternative form of belletrist [A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres]
adj
Alternative form of bibliothetic [Pertaining to libraries.]
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(literature) A word, phrase, etc. that is characteristic of Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.
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A genre of literature consisting of writings which at one time or another were fathered upon Pope Clement I.
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Alternative form of comp. lit. (“comparative literature”)
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a person who carries out a comparative study, especially of language and literary works
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The academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, cultural and national boundaries.
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Alternative form of comparatist [a person who carries out a comparative study, especially of language and literary works]
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(intransitive, linguistics) To create a conlang (constructed language).
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The study of the literary works of Dante Alighieri.
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(library cataloguing) The area of knowledge relating to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense.
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The interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
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A work of fiction employing a variety of forms to explore its subject exhaustively.
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Alternative form of epistolic [Relating to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.]
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A writer of epitaphs; and epitaphist.
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(literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
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Literature created by taking words, phrases, or passages from other sources and combining or editing them so as to impart new meaning.
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A structuralist approach to literary theory, film theory, and other cultural theories, examining the elements that combine in the telling of a story and seeking patterns in collections of stories.
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(literature) aware of the elements that are typically found in a particular genre; able to recognize and/or predict the tropes that come into play
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(historical, law) A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, (specifically) one who authored glosses on legal texts (especially the Corpus Juris of Justinian), typically distinguished from the later commentators who wrote in extended prose and adopted a more pragmatic form of jurisprudence.
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Materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels.
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(humorous) To be using a lot of obscure or complicated words.
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man of letters, a literary man
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(uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
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The study of language as a subject in primary school and secondary school, with a particular focus on essay writing and debate.
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Alternative form of Lettrism [A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.]
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(education) The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, considered together.
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(obsolete) Any of seven traditional academic subjects: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
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The study of opera librettos
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Initialism of literary criticism. [(literature) The study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.]
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An academic involved in teaching literature rather than composition.
adj
Relating to literature.
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(literature) The study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
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(literature) An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
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(literature) A register of a language that is used in literary writing.
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In many European countries, all kinds of scientific study pertinent to literature, including history of literature, literary criticism, comparative literature, and literary theory.
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(literature) Literary device.
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(literature) The theory or the philosophy of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism
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having a literary quality; befitting literature
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Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.
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A literary person, a man of letters.
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The body of all written works.
adj
(uncommon) Of or relating to literaturology, the study of literature.
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(uncommon) The scholarly or scientific study of literature.
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Distinctively literary, usually in a studied or affected form.
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Alternative form of literae humaniores [An undergraduate course of study focused on classics.]
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literature that deals with the subject of literature
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A style of writing characteristic of bad-quality novels.
adj
Alternative form of novelistic [Having characteristics of a novel.]
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(literary criticism) Forms of literature that are somehow void or obliterated, for example by being interpreted in a way not intended by the original author.
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(often used attributively) A literary movement centering books (particularly children's and young-adult fiction) about marginalized people written by authors of the same group.
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(uncountable) The literary style of Petrarch.
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(literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
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The study of the sources of, or influences upon, a literary work.
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A genre of confessional writings by people who have left academia.
adj
Alternative form of sans-culottic [Relating to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.]
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Of or pertaining to writing
adj
Alternative form of sigillic [Relating to occult or magical sigils.]
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A Haitian literary movement.
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(sciences) A defined portion of an academic literature.
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Involving technology and literature.
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One who is well versed in Scripture; a textman.
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Consuming or devouring words.
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A lover of words; a logophile.
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The belief that texts should be published in the vernacular.
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Someone who is fond of or devoted to the knowledge, study, and history of words; a logophile.
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A man who is a wordsmith.
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(education) Comparative literature.
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of or pertaining to a writer
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A cruciverbalist or crossword fan who shares Ximenes's beliefs about fair crossword setting.
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