Individual #literary_study  the humanistic study of literature
  instance of:  humanistic_discipline
  >part:  literature.literary_study  the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in French literature"
  >part:  comparative_literature__comparativeliterature  study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation)
  >part:  literary_criticism  the informed analysis and evaluation of literature
  >part:  poetics__poetic  study of poetic works
     >part:  prosody  the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  >part:  classics  study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
  >part:  rhetoric  study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

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