the term literature refers to what
Literature, in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works. More restrictively, literature is writing considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura was used to refer to all written accounts, though contemporary definitions extend the term to include texts that are spoken or sung. The concept has changed meaning over time: