Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, having the qualities of, or producing subliterature.
- adjective Not written as or intended to be literature.
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- adjective not written as or intended to be literature
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Examples
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If this style be "subliterary," then that category itself certainly needs to be rethought -- especially within the general context of science fiction.
PKD and Style 2006
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If this style be "subliterary," then that category itself certainly needs to be rethought -- especially within the general context of science fiction.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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Huston was ever an adapter of literary and subliterary properties, ranging from the grandiose—"The Bible" (1966), no less—to the ludicrous (the 1973 Paul Newman spy thriller "The Mackintosh Man").
The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011
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When we first see her in Minneapolis, a slattern in a junk-strewn apartment, she's living on scraps of loveless sex, drinking too much and picking up snatches of kids' conversations here and there, then dropping them into her chronicles of Kendall Strickland, the teenage heroine of a series called Waverly Prep that is, in fact, headed for the dustbin of subliterary history.
Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Pisspoor Media will quote her sliming hyperbole no matter how much of a subliterary parasite she is revealed to be.
Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Unfortunately, the bookshops are crowded with Forgotten Realms tie-ins, Dragonlance books, and other subliterary properties taking after these; and still more with fantasies not overtly related to D&D worlds, but in which one is never out of earshot of the rattle of polyhedral dice.
Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006
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In SF circles, this is being seen as another attack on science fiction as subliterary as opposed to paraliterary which is just so awful and mean.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008
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Believe it or not, I generally sympathize with Gallop, even though I write about fiction or--sigh--sermons that often qualifies as paraliterary at best and subliterary at worst.
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Believe it or not, I generally sympathize with Gallop, even though I write about fiction or--sigh--sermons that often qualifies as paraliterary at best and subliterary at worst.
Close 2006
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The trick is to make out that the tradition is popular, subliterary, and that gifted novelists, like Hogg, or Dickens, are too good to be Gothic.
Ladies in Distress Miller, Karl 1978
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