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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH Definition of Literature What is literature? Literature is a piece of writing that is valued as work of art specially written with excellence of form or expression, expressing ideas of permanent of universal interest and it also has artistic value. As a work of art, literature may be discussed as the organization of words to give pleasure which elevates and transforns experience beyond moral pleasure. Literature is derived from the Latin ‘literature’ which means ‘writing’. Also one can also talk of literature either in a loose or in specific sense in a loose sense, literature is a collection of writings. Researchers and scholar often talk about literature review which means any given subject or any printed information on a particular subject or field and comments on what has already been written by other people in a given area of study. The idea of literature review shows that eve