Literature, this term means in the broadest sense, all written records or statements. Derived the word literature from the Latin word "littera," the letter. The literature includes not only written but also oral proverbs.

It opens up a wide range in this area, where everyone can get their money. Starting with the adolescent novel, women's and girls' literature, children and young people, the horror literature, fiction, on devotional, trend, popular literature, through to the physical, technical, utility, and the trend and national literature, and ultimately to world literature. Fiction, this includes for example Books and textbooks, texts or reference books, encyclopedias (encyclopaedias), atlases and the like. Also manuals or operating instructions are also included. Textbooks and advertising texts are referred to as use literature. Because these are created without artistic standards only for a particular purpose. As a literary tendency is referred to the texts (including the proverbs) which show clear policy directions, derived from the term trend, which shows a philosophical ode political direction.
is trivial and fiction include the generic term light fiction, which we - as its name says - retain. Novels, detective stories, thrillers, horror, fairy tales, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, drama, may short stories, historical and home-novels, romance novels, dime novels, even erotic and pornographic novels, but also poetry in all its facets: List it here. Even newspapers and magazines as well as comics, manga, etc. are also included. Ebensfalls to category include the so-called popular literature adolescent novels. Similarly, the genre of children's literature, the Subdivision as the girls' literature. This well-targeted groups are addressed. Children and young people and, specifically, adolescent girls in the age. The devotional literature has a religious character, but is not treated as theological literature, as it includes no scientific treatise, but merely virtuous disposition.

While the national literature can be referred to as the literature of a particular people and is therefore limited to a particular nation, the world's literature has undergone over the regional and national borders wide dissemination. With an international spread of a particular literature is not synonymous with the concept of world literature. The artistic value of the work and influence on the whole of literature is crucial. One could for example To say that literature is meant all time as the world literature.

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