During my undergraduate days,i always fathom that there exist a wide gap between literature and linguistics though i studied stylistics as my core course.Far-fetchd,the preoccupation of linguistics is the describe a language and nt prescriptive as the case may be.In doing so,literature is predominant as one cannot study semantics,pragmatics,discoure analysis and stylistics without considering the matrix and role of literature in sustaining such study to scholarship.
However,language is said to be linguistically studied abesing the style through which it is used.Come to think of it,literature is language itself portraying human experiences in imitative form aptly captured in passages.
Infact,literature is to language as language is to linguistics and it preliminaries: phonetics,syntax,morphology,semantics and pragmatics respectively.

Literature preserves the tool used in linguistics, without which it will be impossible to study language - since it provides ready apparatus which forms the basis, or kicks into motion the realisation of basic theories that secure the importance of language study (linguistics).

Literature is inexorally linked to language as linguistics is to language.My experiences so far in the class is a prime.Nevertheless,literature is imitative and didatic.