subliterary

Ironically, if literary memoirs have sometimes been criticized as too literary, the writings by most of the writers in Vasvari's study have been simply ignored, in part because women's writing has been consistently understudied, but also because they have been dismissed as too subliterary to merit critical consideration--as Vasvari elaborates in her introduction to the bibliography.

The death of little Nell, they understand intuitively, is a shameless mining of sentiment that seems subliterary in its intense emotionality; the moralizing of Hard Times is considered to be beneath Dickens's artistic dignity in another sense, because its polemic is too one-dimensionally obvious to require a novel to articulate it.

But efforts by literary critics to laugh off or explain away Bradbury's enthusiasm for Burroughs must try to distinguish between literary and subliterary constructivism: good novels construct the modern, psychologized self; bad novels construct a parodic, unreflective self.

die out, but persist in the half-life of the subliterary genres of mass culture." (1) A fascinating case in point is the nascent development of the cyberpastoral, a critical neologism that borders on the oxymoronic.

Polemic then was not subliterary or peripheral but rather central, ultimately contributing to the definition of what was to become considered literary.

As in her earlier fiction, her use of such postmodernist devices as intertextuality, irony, and inclusion of subliterary and extraliterary elements gives a recognizable and somewhat rebellious tone to her prose.

These contemporary subliterary novels or Unterhaltungsromane ("minor" or purely "entertaining novels") can be useful for considering how today's historical fiction attempts to fill in the gaps in historiography with regard to women in history.

Not camp." Like Super Mario Bros., then, the film apparently invokes its video-game model, "Tomb Raider," only in order to disavow it as subliterary and unserious.

Intellectual integrity, of course, never becomes an issue with Nick Greene, who is consistently portrayed as subliterary and money-driven.

He's been called "Arkansas' greatest novelist," the "Faulkner of the Ozarks," and the "greatest unknown writer in America." His friend, fellow novelist Jack Butler, connects these identifications, arguing that Harington's choice of locale and subject matter has unfairly relegated him to some subliterary branch of local-color comedy and kept him from serious consideration.

This body of literature joins a rapidly mounting collection of women's writing that, until recently, has been relegated to the subliterary classification of cultural artifacts, of some use to the social historian, of no use a s works of art.

If many kinds of texts purport to tell stories, whether or not they present them as true, it is most useful to attend to the position of the storyteller, the resources he/she had available, the purpose behind the story, the venue and audience, rather than to waste time denoting some texts as literature and others as non-, extra-, or subliterary. Many scholars are finding that compelling cultural analyses require one to look outside the usual suspects that have been enshrined in anthologies of "literature" (even though these are themselves changing).

(56) But her spell does work, and the clearest evidence of this is the enchantment of her audience, who consistently call this poem "a masterpiece." (57) In addition to seducing the attention of a male reader, this move by the poet is yet another way of making a generic statement: his poetry looks at "high" modes of poetic discourse thr ough the lens of a nearly subliterary form, (58) mingling high and low promiscuously, objectifying the literary past.