tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post5147141631499723463..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Myrifield Manifesto on Research on Literary ReadingKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-80940719897896396452008-09-29T22:16:00.000-04:002008-09-29T22:16:00.000-04:00Thank you, Valentine, for this question. In my und...Thank you, Valentine, for this question. In my understanding, literariness is a quality that has been proposed by David Miall and Don Kuiken, to point to what it is that makes literary texts distinctive. It typically involves the use of foregrounding, syntactic and semantic constructions that are unusual and produce defamiliarization, and—I think this is what interests me about the idea—that enable words in a piece of poetry or literary prose to take on a significance that makes them worth taking as one's own: the reader's mind comes close to that of the writer. Artifying is a related idea from Ellen Dissanayake. Her view is that it is a shame that art is only a noun, and that it would be good for there to be a verb, something like "to artify." The central activity of art, she says, is to make something special, to mark it out for attention.Keith Oatleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-10708463814218789822008-09-29T21:27:00.000-04:002008-09-29T21:27:00.000-04:00Very satisfying to have this follow up from that p...Very satisfying to have this follow up from that previous Myrifield teaser. Can you describe a bit more what literariness and artifying entail?Kirsten Valentine Cadieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04781128427942978109noreply@blogger.com