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Common collocations with literature in American Collocation

literature noun uncountable

US /ˈlɪt(ə)rətʃər/

relating to a particular language or country

English, American, Latin etc

She’s also started an Open University degree in Spanish literature.

relating to a particular period

classical
contemporary
medieval
modern
Victorian

She has edited an anthology of contemporary literature in translation.

relating to a particular century

eighteenth-century, nineteenth-century etc

I teach Victorian and twentieth-century literature, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

very good, and having been popular for a long time

classic

She directed a series of movies based on classic literature.

publish
read
study
teach
write

He was educated at the Tokyo Imperial University where he studied English literature.

piece
work

Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin is the first great work of Russian literature.