literary study
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri ˈstʌdi/
- Literature
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estudio literario
- The course on literary study helps students analyze classic and contemporary texts.
- Latin American literary study
- American literary study
- field of literary study
I wouldn't even call it super academic because we very quickly leave any discussion of like literary study in the dust.
- I wouldn't even call it super academic because we very quickly leave any discussion of like literary study in the dust.
- Another from their girlfriend, another from pointless display of education and literary studies that don't heal what is amiss.
Examples
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Not surprisingly, literary and cultural theory thus play an increasingly important role in current literary studies.
Academic text (1990) -
This is a foundation of what English literary study looks like pretty much at any university.
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Do we carry the tools of literary studies that way?
Academic text (1996) -
Now, when I started this business and I got my PhD, literary studies was a very restricted world.
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What has prompted this entry of confession into literary studies?
Academic text (1999) -
The field of literary studies encounters visual culture with a similar kind of ambivalence.
Academic text (1995) -
Better just to say that the consequences of the incursion of theory into literary studies are still being explored and experienced.
Academic text (1993) -
Nowhere, however, is this master-disciple relationship more evident than in the organization of academic conferences for literary studies.
Academic text (1996) -
In the last several years, practitioners of Latin American literary studies have increasingly sought to articulate, account for, and defend diversity.
Academic text (1996) -
Greenblatt and others founded a journal still, one of the most important and influential journals in the field of literary study called Representations.
Synonyms
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A study that explains what books mean and how good they are
How Academic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'literary study' is a straightforward adjective + noun composition where 'literary' (relating to literature) modifies 'study' (an act of learning or analysis), so the meaning 'study of literature' is directly derivable from the parts. There is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension, and the same compositional logic exists in many languages, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Literary study comes from the simple image of a person with a pile of books, reading closely and taking notes. literary means 'about stories and poems' and study means 'to look closely and think about them', so literary study now means the careful school or university work of reading, thinking about, and explaining books and poems.