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Literariness

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, literariness means: Features of language that make a text function as literature rather than ordinary practical writing.

In Turkish: edebilik, yazınsallık

How it is used

Use in theory discussions about what makes writing literary; support the claim with features of language.

Example sentences

  1. The essay links the passage's literariness to its unusual rhythm and repeated images.

    Rhythm and imagery provide evidence for calling this passage literary.

  2. Can a shopping list gain literariness when a poem places it beside a memory of loss?

    The question explores how a new context can change the status of ordinary words.

Common collocations

  • the concept of literariness
  • define literariness
  • literatureWritten works, such as novels, poems and plays, that are valued for their artistic quality and the way they use language, and the study of these works.
  • literary theoryThe study of the ideas and methods used to read and interpret literature, such as structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism and postcolonial theory.

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