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⇑Language and Literature at UAB

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: www.uab.es/

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

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Literature

We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.

Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Volume I, p. 23.

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Literature

While the guardians of “literary” fiction still give each other prizes and writers can still achieve stardom and create good work, the fact remains that it is a movement that has lost all its creative force as a movement.

Orson Scott Card, Quo Vadis? (Published in Nebula Awards Showcase 2008)

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Literature

It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.

Joseph Parker, p. 386.

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