The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonliterary \nonliterary\ adj. Characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.
Syn: common, vernacular, vulgar.
Wiktionary
a. not literary
WordNet
adj. marked by lack of affectation or pedantry; "her talk was very unliterary"- W.D.Howells [syn: unliterary]
Usage examples of "nonliterary".
I did for literary and nonliterary reasons: quality, length, clarity, and their ability to make sense in excerpted form with a minimum of explanation.
Insofar as the absolute disjunction of the literary and the nonliterary had been the root assumption of mainstream Anglo-American criticism in the mid-twentieth century, deconstruction emerged as a liberating challenge, a salutary return of the literary text to the condition of all other texts and a simultaneous assault on the positivist certitude of the nonliterary, the privileged realm of historical fact.
On the contrary, as I will try to demonstrate in some detail, these impure terms that mark the difference between the literary and the nonliterary are the currency in crucial institutional negotiations and exchange.
But for the stories by Broderick, Dedman, Love and a few others, the stories in Alien Shores share a sort of naive exuberance and unself-conscious straight-ahead storytelling that most of the Canadian pieces shunned -- the kind of straight-faced nonliterary audacity that characterizes the sf of the Golden Age.