literatures
- plural of literature.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
Chesterton, John Buchan, Rafael Sabatini and even Sax Rohmer, among a score of others, were — and are — thrilling storytellers, as well as the founders of our modern genre literatures.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023
Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023
Her mother is professor emeriti of Russian and East European languages and literatures, also at Rutgers.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2018
Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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