extraliterary

Finally, I am not sure I agree with you If I understand you correctly when you say that the political uses made of novels are "secondary" and "extraliterary" - is it not the case that forms of language, style, and so on, contain their own politics - in the sense that they organize communities of readers around certain key themes?

The politics of the politics of literature 2008

The recourse to 'extraliterary' theory is not in itself, however, a methodological error.

Anaesthetic Criticism: I Crews, Frederick C. 1970

But only novels with an extraliterary reputation, which have clambered off the page into a culture of received images—The Count of Monte-Cristo, perhaps, or The War of the Worlds or even Lolita, I am sorry to say—will lend themselves to future mashups with a user interface.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

But only novels with an extraliterary reputation, which have clambered off the page into a culture of received images—The Count of Monte-Cristo, perhaps, or The War of the Worlds or even Lolita, I am sorry to say—will lend themselves to future mashups with a user interface.

Literary mashups 2010

I am tempted to say that Mailer and Capote deserve each other—two overblown reputations that owed more to extraliterary tomfoolery than to their writing.

Guest of the non-fiction novelist 2009

The amazing tale of Corinne's extraliterary life and wanderings, both through Europe and across America, can be followed in Ellen Moers's essay "Performing Heroinism: The Myth of Corinne" in Literary Women (Doubleday, 1976); and in Angela Leighton's Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (University of Virginia Press, 1992).

The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company.

Posterity makes its choice 2009

One thing Westlake doesn't do in most of his fiction, in all but this case in my experience, is deliberately mislead us about something that is extraliterary, as opposed to an aspect of the plot.

Don Westlake #2 Ed Gorman 2009

My mind numbs in response to the parade of hackneyed phrases ( "And in conclusion, these books are both very similar and very different ...") when suddenly something catches my eye -- a turn of phrase or an extraliterary locution.

It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Plagiarism Buster 2008