| The literature is art as a tool that uses the word. By extension, it also refers to the set of productions of a nation, an age or gender (the Greek literature, the nineteenth-century literature, etc) and all works which relate to an art or a science (literature, legal literature, etc) is studied by literary theory. In the Dictionary of Authorities (1734), literature is the knowledge and science of letters. Etymologically the word derives from Latin LITTERA, which means "letters." In the sixteenth century in Spain, Literature designated the legal manuscripts, and arts and letters. In the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy (1992) the term applies to art as a tool that uses the word, which includes the works with an aesthetic intention. In the Dictionary of Spanish Use of Maria Moline is defined as " art that uses as a means of expression, spoken or written word "and, as a second sense, all literary works. According to the International Dictionary of Literature and Philosophical Grammar by Guido Gomez, the word literature refers to the imaginative or creative writings of authors who have made writing an excellent way of expressing ideas of permanent and general interest. |
