subliterary works such as letters and diaries. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
If this style be "subliterary," then that category itself certainly needs to be rethought -- especially within the general context of science fiction. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
Pisspoor Media will quote her sliming hyperbole no matter how much of a subliterary parasite she is revealed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies in Distress] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Close] Reference
A piquant sidedish here, in fact, one of those tidbits of utterly forgettable subliterary Entstehungs-geschichte which there is every reason for Professor Levin not to know, is that Louis Macneice could have been cumulating on my version, not vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Justice to Faust] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy] Reference
You Are Not a Gadget is written in the casual, subliterary style that editors have deemed suitable for businesspeople-in short chapters with sidebars, occasional bullet-pointed lists, and lots of subheadings to steer the easily distracted. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters]
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