Definition of "literatures" []

• Plural form of literature. (noun)

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• "We shall identify economy both as a theme within literatures and as a way of thinking about the value of fantastic literature itself ...."
• "Just as “French” is a social rather than biogical construction - but the affects of that social creation are strong enough that there actually are classes specifically in French literatures, French history and so forth."
• "English literature, like other literatures, is full of battle-poems, but it is worth noticing that the ones that have won for themselves a kind of popularity are always a tale of disasters and retreats."