literariness

Thus, the search for a definition of literariness has developed in two directions.

Yet other scholars think that a theory of literariness is merely impossible.

Dylan's literariness is casual, a brilliant form of free association.

Yet still, I always thought, my tattoo's literariness does give it a certain cachet.

Nowadays, theorists disagree on the issue of what is understood by literariness.

It is literariness and not mimesis which interests the Formalists.

Thus, literariness is defined as being the feature that makes a given work a literary work.

What is it about Brooklyn that breeds literariness?

Restoration heroic drama, for all its literariness, relied on opulent scenery.

After all these years, we may all be sick of the literariness of baseball-mad intellectuals.

This gives rise to a particular crisis in literary studies because "literariness" is no longer seen as an aesthetic quality nor a mimetic mode.

The epilogue plays on our pride, rewarding us in conspiratorial fashion for our own literariness.

Literariness abounds in "Houses Without Doors," from the title onward.

Smedley was offended by the literariness of the middle-class intellectuals she met in New York.

Yet the literariness of the subject, and the gingerly politesse of its execution, should cause some disquiet.

Literariness, and not this or that work by this or that author, is the object of literary studies.

Poetry was the starting point for Formalist literary theory, and it lent itself in a very obvious way to the differential definition of literariness.

In his son, literacy was transmuted into literariness, litigiousness into falling afoul of the law.

The synonymy of literariness and form is a feature of the first phase of Formalism.

It is in fact this object (literariness) and the way in which it was defined that guarantees the coherence of the science.

The fault I have found with 'The Lover' was its literariness, which comes very easily to me because it's my style.

In the 1990s, a number of scholars reintroduced the model of formalism to define literariness.

With literariness and not individual works of literature forming the object of literary studies, the status of the author underwent a radical change.

Both of these concepts are attempts to describe the significance of the form of a literary work in order to define its "literariness."

The fact that the specificity of literary science is constituted by literariness means that an historical dimension is inevitably brought into play.