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Literature Studies is the study of written works of the
imagination, of which poetry, drama and narrative fiction constitute today the
most familiar types or genres. Most students and teachers of literature,
however, see it as a more complex matter. It might be more accurate to describe
it as a set of methods for examining the richness and diversity of experience
through unusual uses of language, through a language that we recognize as
different from everyday language and that thereby aspires to produce a
reflection of and on the world not available to us otherwise. As such, Literature
works are also primary documents for investigating national histories, world
events, the individual psyche, race, class, gender, science, economics,
religion, the natural world, leisure and the other arts. Because Literature
studies engages with countless other disciplines, it is among the most
interdisciplinary of any field of study.