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Meaning of "subliterature" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SUBLITERATURE

ˈsʌbˌlɪtrətʃə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBLITERATURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subliterature is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBLITERATURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Subliterature

Subliterature is a negative term to refer to popular writing and texts that sometimes are called literature but do no classify as so by literary critics. Subliterature is intrinsically considered inferior to literature in terms of writing skill, depth and legacy. Subliterature is considered to have little influence on future literature despite any popular or commercial success. Characteristics of subliterature share some aspects of pop music; ▪ Appeal to a general audience ▪ Tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments.

Definition of subliterature in the English dictionary

The definition of subliterature in the dictionary is writings which are not considered good or artistic enough to be called literature.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBLITERATURE

aperture · candidature · countersignature · coverture · cubature · curvature · entablature · filature · implicature · judicature · ligature · musculature · nervature · nomenclature · ossature · quadrature · serrature · striature · subminiature · tablature

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBLITERATURE

sublimely · sublimeness · subliminal · subliminal advertising · subliminal image · subliminal message · subliminal perception · subliminally · sublimit · sublimity · sublimize · subline · sublinear · sublineation · sublingual · sublingual gland · subliteracy · subliterary · subliterate · sublittoral

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBLITERATURE

adventure · armature · by nature · caricature · creature · feature · human nature · immature · legislature · literature · mature · miniature · Mother Nature · nature · premature · room temperature · signature · special feature · stature · temperature · the course of nature

Synonyms and antonyms of subliterature in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «subliterature» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBLITERATURE

Find out the translation of subliterature to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of subliterature from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subliterature» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

subliterature
1,325 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Spanish

subliteratura
570 millions of speakers
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subliterature
510 millions of speakers
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subliterature
380 millions of speakers
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subliterature
280 millions of speakers
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subliterature
278 millions of speakers
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subliterature
270 millions of speakers
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subliterature
260 millions of speakers
fr

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subliterature
220 millions of speakers
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Subliiter
190 millions of speakers
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subliterature
180 millions of speakers
ja

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subliterature
130 millions of speakers
ko

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subliterature
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Subliterature
85 millions of speakers
vi

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subliterature
80 millions of speakers
ta

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subliterature
75 millions of speakers
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सभ्यता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

subliterature
70 millions of speakers
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subliterature
65 millions of speakers
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subliterature
50 millions of speakers
uk

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subliterature
40 millions of speakers
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subliterature
30 millions of speakers
el

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subliterature
15 millions of speakers
af

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subliterature
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

subliterature
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

subliterature
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subliterature

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBLITERATURE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of subliterature
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «subliterature».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subliterature

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBLITERATURE»

Discover the use of subliterature in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subliterature and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Popular Texts in English: New Perspectives
Some. Linguistic. Facts. and. Formulae. in. Erotic. Subliterature: John. Cleland's. Fanny. Hill. Jose Santaemilia Ruiz Universitat de Valencia Reading John Cleland's Fanny Hill is somewhat of a puzzling adventure. It is both a popular and a ...
Antonio Ballesteros González, Lucía Mora González, 2001
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Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China
I think there is a category of subliterature below Robertss junk fiction. Harlequin and Silhouette romances come to mind in America; in China there is the crime subliterature published by regional literary journals named in Chapter Four.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley, 2000
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The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature
Today Don Lewis and other yarnspinners admit a debt to Mark Twain's writing. Folklore inspires subliterature; folklore and subliterature inspire literature; and subliterature and literature in turn re-inspire folklore. Within this complex relationship ...
Carolyn S. Brown, 1989
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The Contemporary Spanish Novel: An Annotated, Critical ...
Subliterature in particular can give us a very clear picture of it," says A., who also remarks how difficult it is to draw the line between literature and subliterature, since there is a constant shift from one category to the other. The Decameron, for  ...
Samuel Amell, 1996
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Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature
Literature and subliterature are opposite inasmuch as literature writes within its texts the history of its practices and subliterature often seems to be written in a sort of naive ignorance of its own history. Bearing this perspective in mind, we can ...
Maria Nikolajeva, 1995
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Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope
According to Dorfman, only through exposing the relationship between these two forms of culture can students appreciate the process through which literature adapts and confronts the themes of mass literature, or what he terms '' subliterature.
Sophia McClennen, 2009
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture: Essays
When scholars were first interesting themselves in dime novels, detective stories, etc., they thought of them as subliterature. This concept reflected the traditional qualitative distinction between high culture and mass culture. Unfortunately ...
John G. Cawelti, 2004
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Books and the teen-age reader: a guide for teachers, ...
While continued reading of subliterature may distort the reader's beliefs about life through myriads of false assumptions, we do owe the material some gratitude for being an important, apparently inevitable step in the development of a reader ...
G. Robert Carlsen, 1980
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The Americans: The National Experience
They were flamboyant, gargantuan, and wonderfully efficient, but they lacked grandeur. It was no accident that Americans sought heroes in a subliterature, and never found them there. The American subliterature was a natural birthplace and  ...
Daniel J. Boorstin, 2010
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Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and ...
Epstein and Foster, The Radical Right, 136; Roy, Apostles, 228; Caute, The Great Fear, 369; Margaret Hartley, "The Subliterature of Hate in America,” Southwest Review 37 (Summer 1952): 187; Herbert S. Parmet, Eisenhower and the ...
Don E. Carleton, 2014

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBLITERATURE»

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Scholars See Comics as No Laughing Matter
... proponents of the educational uses of comics admit that the medium retains a bit of a stigma among educators, some of whom see the books as “subliterature. «Education Week News, Feb 09»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Subliterature [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/subliterature>. May 2024 ».
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