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- (noun): The body of all written works.
- (noun): The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
- (noun): (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- (noun): 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