Adjective : literary history. ,literary style. ,a literary man. From Dictionary.com.
And you may also have noticed that I don't treat "nonliterary" and "unpopular" as value judgments. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial vs Literary (again)] Reference
But in what sense are these nonliterary objects "texts"?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Study] Reference
It's surprisingly easy to translate nonliterary work into words. From Wordnik.com. [APAture Live] Reference
More important, later scholars eviscerated his nonliterary research. From Wordnik.com. [Balance of Power: A New Group Counters] Reference
This nonliterary use penetrated then into French, Italian, and Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference
These days, the state-run agency has more pressing, nonliterary concerns. From Wordnik.com. [NYC subway service ads replace poetry, literature] Reference
But to assume that, I had to avoid taking the poems seriously in a nonliterary way. From Wordnik.com. [Elegy for the Executive Director] Reference
He built it out perfectly to his specifications, but it's based totally on nonliterary verse. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Segal: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding)] Reference
On the whole, the study of nonliterary and “primitive” languages had languished since Humboldt. From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
Some of the students of “antiquities” declared on the other hand that it was only the nonliterary sources that could be trusted. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference
The problem is shifted to that of style which cannot be the single criterion distinguishing literature from nonliterary forms of discourse. From Wordnik.com. [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference
Again, however, we must realize that the distinction between art and nonart, between literature and the nonliterary linguistic utterance, is fluid. From Wordnik.com. [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference
The Kootenay School of Writing is seeking submissions for the 13th issue of W magazine, to focus on "paraliterary" or nonliterary writing projects. From Wordnik.com. [Interesting, but it's not literature] Reference
If I were credible enough to have my own blog, here are five nonliterary but literate blogs I read regularly which would have a place on my blogroll. From Wordnik.com. [July 2007] Reference
Regan most notably turned nonliterary personalities into literary bestsellers, a move that was described as brilliant by some and too easy by others. From Wordnik.com. [Regan's Fate Is Unwritten] Reference
In a world of unequal sacrifice-a world that creams talent efficiently, then shelters it from misery-the gulf between the literary and the nonliterary world deepens. From Wordnik.com. [A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD] Reference
At one point she relates to a distinctly nonliterary character: Anna Nicole Smith, who, when she dies of a drug overdose in February 2007, is taking many of the medications that the author is taking. From Wordnik.com. [When Pain Comes to Stay] Reference
In this sense there was a certain analogy with the work of the archaeolo - gists on nonliterary material, and Mabillon's technique could have been established only after many other matters had been settled. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference
Her second book, "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," was published in 1974, when Mrs. Paley--who has made no secret of her support for the peace movement, opposition to the war in Vietnam and her progressive political views--had come to some nonliterary prominence as a member of various demonstrations. From Wordnik.com. [GRACE PALEY DIES] Reference
She argues that the extraordinary amount of time and energy he expended on nonliterary activities of a philanthropic and social nature — the good works, the fundraising, the consciousness-raising, the speeches and dinners and parties and Christmas festivities and amateur theatricals — is best explained as an effort to embody in his own life the vision of the good society implicit in his books. From Wordnik.com. [Dickens Our Contemporary] Reference
To celebrate "Eater's Digest," it seemed appropriate to feature nonliterary (i.e. actual) popcorn. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Unlike the typical anthology filled with essays by familiar authors, "Us" offers love stories by nonliterary types, told in their own voices. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Birmingham was in his nonliterary life a clergyman in Ireland where he was pestered by bishops and other authorities to fill in recurring questionnaires. From Wordnik.com. [Salem-News.com] Reference
I am reminded of an incident that took place some twenty years ago, when I first began visiting Britain regularly and was unfamiliar with nonliterary Briticisms. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4] Reference
The nineteenth century, in fact, by making education popular, has produced in America the curious spectacle of a reading-public with essentially nonliterary tastes. From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
The department has also made changes to accommodate both the seniors†™ workload and the “increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the study of English, American and Anglophone literature, †acting English Director of Undergraduate Studies John Rogers said. “We will be permitting students to count one relevant course on a nonliterary topic in another department to count toward the major, †Rogers said. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Daily News: Latest Issue] Reference
We can know literary facts much better than we know nonliterary facts: Everyone knows that Batman fights crime in Gotham City, but we don’t all know who was the 22nd president of the US Grover Cleveland. From Wordnik.com. [IP Scholars conference, sixth parallel session] Reference
Scarry takes the position opposite to contemporary deconstruction on "seeing" and "reading": she believes that in reading we "see" mental images that surpass the vivacity of nonliterary imagining, images that "somehow. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Is Reading] Reference
Plato or the Marquis de Sade) is representative of his time, or whether we picture his time according to our interpretation of the author; we lack nonliterary verifications of the love customs of the times in particular countries and classes. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
A mathematical intuition of reality (which he recovered from classical sources), by working it out in a variety of technical problems (often in accordance with clas - sical exemplars) that Alberti's thought developed in several fields of learning — fields which were hitherto quite disparate, but in which he, and Leonardo after him, brought about a new methodological unity and achieved a new, nonliterary kind of universality. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSAL MAN] Reference
Switch it up to nonliterary part of the night. From Wordnik.com. [APAture Live] Reference
Unlike the typical anthology filled with essays by familiar authors, "Us" offers love stories by nonliterary types, told in their own voices. lists the Criterion Collection DVDs that are out of print (and on sale at the. From Wordnik.com. [Largehearted Boy] Reference
Lewis’ answer to the second question was more complicated: the Nobel had no strings attached to it, since the Swedish Academy interpreted the clause in the Nobel will, “the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency,” to mean only that it was not merely commercial work (he did not observe that the clause had been advanced as an argument against a number of candidates, including Ibsen and Hardy), whereas the comparable clause in the Pulitzer will indicates a nonliterary standard of merit. From Wordnik.com. [Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel Prize] Reference
1938), with strong attention being paid to nonliterary languages (Trubetskoy had a deep knowledge of the languages of the Caucasus) and, in general, to syn - chronic description as much as to the analysis of change. From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
Flush with funds from university oil revenues, the "Great Acquisitor," as Ransom was called, snapped up the collections of Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and George Bernard Shaw, to name a few, as well as many nonliterary archives, such as that of theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes, and 5,000 boxes of producer David O. Selznick's papers. From Wordnik.com. [A Magnum Opus for Ransom] Reference
(2) New Historicism is an approach based on the idea of literature as a social activity involving not only authors but publishers, editors, printers, booksellers, purchasers, readers, reviewers, critics, teachers, students, and a great deal of nonliterary historical context, including the political and social ideas of everybody involved, local and national and international events, and so on and on. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-nine Ways of Reading 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
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