Literature and Media of German-Speaking Countries

Literatura i media krajów niemieckojęzycznych

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⇑Literature and Media of German-Speaking Countries at UWr

Field of studies: German Studies

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: humanities

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: uni.wroc.pl/en/

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

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Literature

* * * A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, On Sir William Temple.

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Literature

The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.

William King, letter (Jan. 7, 1719). Same phrase occurs in the Spectator. Commonwealth of letters is used by Addison, Spectator, No. 529. Nov. 6, 1712.

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Literature

From the hour of the invention of printing, books, and not kings, were to rule the world. Weapons forged in the mind, keen-edged, and brighter than a sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and battle-axe. Books! lighthouses built on the sea of time! Books! by whose sorcery the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes. From their pages great souls look down in all their grandeur, undimmed by the faults and follies of earthly existence, consecrated by time.

Edwin Percy Whipple, p. 386.

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