What grants it its exalted place may be called literariness or art or any number of other names, but whatever these are, they are, finally, ineffable things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

On the other hand, it needs to, on some other level/s, be more than just a story: I look for "literariness".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Even so, literary fiction is generally characterized as distinctive based on its content and style ( "literariness", the concern to be "writerly").    From Wordnik.com.  [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference

I was expecting to experience "literariness" in several pubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

Love all that literariness, but Psychedelic George hits what I was searching for.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Axelrod, circa 1975.] Reference

The different narrative techniques that Stewart uses also add to its feeling of "literariness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

What do these literary things have in common and do they really somehow proclaim their own literariness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some have greatness thrust upon them…] Reference

He believes that this is a way to spark a broader embracing of literariness, literature and self-expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [co-creating futures] Reference

And while these authors are recognized as good, they live cleanly on the verge of literariness in the public eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some have greatness thrust upon them…] Reference

For one thing, associating literariness and goodness to density neglects all the other things that make good writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some have greatness thrust upon them…] Reference

Despite these different reactions, both were responding to the same thing: the ostentatious literariness of Hemans's style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron] Reference

No use the literary lads telling us that it's all made-up, that the whole thing is composed not of life but of 'literariness.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [God's Greene] Reference

Can most video games on a scale of literariness and "game-ness" with Tetris at one end and, say, Kana Little Sister on the other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunes For Thought] Reference

One is the attempt to adopt the literary, to try and apply some of that literariness to things that do not traditionally hold it.    From Wordnik.com.  [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference

Can most video games be placed on a scale of literariness and "game-ness" with Tetris at one end and, say, Kana Little Sister on the other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunes For Thought] Reference

Through faddish usage, writers can express their literariness without actually having to tell a story or produce an image, or offer a rational thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fad Writing and Morality] Reference

Nixon boiled his thoughts into slogans; JFK disdained literariness; and Reagan cultivated the persona, according to Chris Matthews, of the man next door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keep Presidential Speeches Smart] Reference

If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Comic Book to Literary Classic] Reference

An issue on which most (but not all) memoirists and commentators agree is the literariness (i.e., the artificiality) of L. E.L.'s professionally adopted themes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Letitia Landon] Reference

(I do not, however, consider the label of literariness to be a guarantee of quality: I dislike reading both Stephenie Meyer and J.M. Coatzee, just for different reasons.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Would you rather be a Best-Selling Author or a Best Writing Author? | The Creative Penn] Reference

He believes in literariness, the Loch Ness Monster of criticism, a mythical creature who lives beneath the surface of literary texts, endowing them with special significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Strindberg, like my friend George Orwell, deliberately set out to avoid literariness; but he never, as Mr. Sprinchorn seems to think, set out to be slipshod and cliché-ridden.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vulgar Style] Reference

On at least some definitions of the term, cosmopolitanism is another name for the collection of values I have been gathering here under the headings of reflexivity, reading, and literariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron and Romantic Occidentalism] Reference

It is why I find "literariness" so intimidating.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on art and politics ...] Reference

In most cases, the technique flourishes its literariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

On Moral Fiction in its breadth and insistent literariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Motley Vision] Reference

Austerlitz, its literariness has become pure device, pure mannerism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spurious] Reference

In fact it's the literariness - though her pastiches are wonderful - that I like less.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Some people celebrate this as a historic breakthrough for literariness in its various forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

She had been a little too much afraid, before that, of Logan's literariness to dare call him up.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've Married Marjorie] Reference

This is, then, an anthology seemingly written to drive J.C. Hallman to drink, because it doggedly focuses on cultural significance over the literariness of the literary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valve] Reference

A different marker of literariness emerged: a distinctive style expressing the genius of a particular author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron] Reference

One cannot help but notice the intransigent literariness of these texts, subverting any easy transitions from poem to political action3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scrivener, Introduction] Reference

I read another review of it, online I think, that deemed it an unusual combination of literariness and readability, and I’d go along with that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now You See Him « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

I really liked the literariness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference

His letters are full of literariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference

(211) — and I shall also come back to the question of what the notions of "literature" and "literariness" mean in de Man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference

"literariness" in "The Resistance to Theory".    From Wordnik.com.  [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference