Definition of "nonliterary" [nonliterary]

• Not literary (adjective)

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• "In the samples you've provided, the political commitment of the literary right is clearly extraliterary, or rather nonliterary, that is, tone deaf to the novel, a conclusion readily argued from the premises of the New criticism concerning ambiguity in narrative voice."
• "And you may also have noticed that I don't treat "nonliterary" and "unpopular" as value judgments."
• "He built it out perfectly to his specifications, but it's based totally on nonliterary verse."