| The counterpart of a culture's national individuality in its literature is originality, the definitive marker of literariness. |
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| Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature. |
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| As the characters start to reflect on the literariness of their lives, tensions rise and tragedy strikes. |
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| However beautiful these lines, they also possess a deliberate blandness, a literariness, that obstructs their power. |
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| Like many poets whose work is rich in echoes of others, his literariness is melancholy and memorious in its workings. |
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| This displacement seems also to occur in this discussion, were it not for the fact that its theoretical insights respond to the novel's complex negotiation of literariness. |
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| In fact, though, the novel's real interest is in its own literariness. |
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| The notions of defamiliarization and foregrounding as linguistic phenomena can help us understand the nature of literariness and how they are developed. |
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| Price is particularly good when the flat cynicism of his speakers works against the slight floweriness or literariness of their language. |
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| Two books short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize also appeared on the Man Booker short list, giving lie to charges made in recent years that the award championed populism over literariness. |
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| Dylan's literariness is casual, a brilliant form of free association. |
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| His literariness helped him understand the obscure references in the book. |
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| Literariness was not merely the quality that distinguished poetics from pragmatics, it was the guarantee and promise of linguistic richness, of polysemy. |
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