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If anything, the preconceptions that obstruct and confuse are more seriously debilitating in literary criticism and discussion, which often introduce not just preconceptions about appropriate form but also about the non-literary ends to which artistic means are presumed to point.
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Prose fiction is less able to differentiate itself from the discursive methods of these other, non-literary forms; sometimes it imitates those methods directly.
Saying Something 2010
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What's your favorite non-literary activity with your daughters?
Andrea Dupree: Three Questions for Alexi Zentner: Writer, Husband, Canadian, And Father Andrea Dupree 2011
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What's your favorite non-literary activity with your daughters?
Andrea Dupree: Three Questions for Alexi Zentner: Writer, Husband, Canadian, And Father Andrea Dupree 2011
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What's your favorite non-literary activity with your daughters?
Andrea Dupree: Three Questions for Alexi Zentner: Writer, Husband, Canadian, And Father Andrea Dupree 2011
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Among friends in the non-literary world, I soon learn they are totally ignorant of London's massive output, including the range of subjects and the monumental achievements of his life.
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And there were panels about authors not so controversial in the Indian context (Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Okri) as well as much that was clearly directed at a non-literary crowd of both tourists (loads of European and U.S. visitors), gawkers and young people who were checking each other out.
Inderpal Grewal: When Voices Get Silenced... and Heard Inderpal Grewal 2012
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And there were panels about authors not so controversial in the Indian context (Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Okri) as well as much that was clearly directed at a non-literary crowd of both tourists (loads of European and U.S. visitors), gawkers and young people who were checking each other out.
Inderpal Grewal: When Voices Get Silenced... and Heard Inderpal Grewal 2012
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And there were panels about authors not so controversial in the Indian context (Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Okri) as well as much that was clearly directed at a non-literary crowd of both tourists (loads of European and U.S. visitors), gawkers and young people who were checking each other out.
Inderpal Grewal: When Voices Get Silenced... and Heard Inderpal Grewal 2012
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What's your favorite non-literary activity with your daughters?
Andrea Dupree: Three Questions for Alexi Zentner: Writer, Husband, Canadian, And Father Andrea Dupree 2011
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