To Russian Formalists, and especially to Victor Shklovsky, literariness, or the distinction between literary and non-literary texts, is accomplished through defamiliarization ( Ekegren 1999, p . 44 ).
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The final voice over of Pedro in his laboratory regarding his sense of futility and oppression both underscores the meaning of the title of the film and lends it an air of literariness of the original narrative.
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Writer David Mamet has a reputation for being a dramatist, so one can expect a " literariness " in The Edge, which is a welcome thing after a deluge of Hollywood's sensory extravanganza.
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There is a quality of earnest, overripe literariness to the script _ adapted by Robert Roth and Scott Bradfield from a novel by Bradfield _ that, at least early on, holds the audience at arm's length.
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The formalist definition is that " literature " foregrounds poetic effects; it is the " literariness " or " poetic " of literature that distinguishes it from ordinary speech or other kinds of writing ( e . g ., journalism ).
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Presumably, it was the very literariness and unfashionableness of the story _ its serious, writerly aspect _ that appealed to Stanley Tucci, who produced, directed and starred in " Joe Gould's Secret, " which opened Friday.
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The disarming touch of humanism and morality in his two famous science fiction books ( The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man ) gave them a dimension of literariness at level with some modern classics like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984.
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The documentary's handling of the Zapatista uprising also happens to have the uncanny literariness of a sign-laden novella, with Wild as its sort of Alice _ shrinking, shrinking, shrinking into the tense, occasionally, bizarrely magic-kissed landscape of this incensing wonderland.
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Similarly, metafiction is " Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions ( esp . naturalism ) and narrative techniques . " It is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, thereby exposing the fictional illusion.
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In similar vein to Cooper, Stephen Regan notes in an essay entitled " Philip Larkin : a late modern poet " that Larkin frequently embraces devices associated with the experimental practices of Modernism, such as " linguistic strangeness, self-conscious literariness, radical self-questioning, sudden shifts of voice and register, complex viewpoints and perspectives, and symbolist intensity ".
