literature

1. literature (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The body of all written works.

2. literature (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

Example: He’s studying English literature at university.

3. literature (noun) — sense 3

Definition: All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

Example: The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?ʼ The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.