Abstract
Literariness is one of the fundamental issues in literary studies, and this paper tries to examine the forma presence of literariness in literary texts. The paper approaches the issue from the perspective of postclassical narratology, and it focuses on formal analysis combined with content analysis while the paper also tackles the relation between literariness and the writer's creative talent. The paper analyzes the texts by such writers as Zhao Shuli, Eileen Chang and Liu Qing to illustrate the inevitable relation between literary form and literariness, and it concludes that literariness of a literary text is determined by the narrative act and the writer's talent.
First Page
71
Last Page
80
Recommended Citation
Liu, Xu. 2013. "Narrative Act and Literariness: On Formal Analysis and Literariness." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (3): pp.71-80. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss3/11
