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adj. - Not written as or intended to be literature.

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  • subliterary works such as letters and diaries
  • If this style be "subliterary," then that category itself certainly needs to be rethought -- especially within the general context of science fiction.
  • Pisspoor Media will quote her sliming hyperbole no matter how much of a subliterary parasite she is revealed to be.
  • 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.
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