Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

found literature

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

Syllables: found lit-er-a-ture
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Literature created by taking words, phrases, or passages from other sources and combining or editing them so as to impart new meaning.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Cohen embraced the clipping as a kind of found literature-an indigenous comic genre. "An Elder of Zion," a persona Cohen assumed in the journal in 1929, was also addicted to cutting tidbits out of the Jewish press,[…]"
"French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation."
"Insertions of found literature reinforce this record of ephemerality: intermingling passages from advertisements, newspaper clippings, and songs within the narrators' musings, Dos Passos imitates how subjects moving through Manhattan might […]"

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does found literature mean?: Literature created by taking words, phrases, or passages from other sources and combining or editing them so as to impart new meaning.

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