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Article published In: Empirical Studies of Literariness
Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák
[Scientific Study of Literature 8:1] 2018
► pp. 21–46

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Towards an empirical model of literariness

 | University of Alberta
Published online: 17 January 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.00007.mia
Article outline
  • 1.Noticing: An empirical study
  • 2.Music
  • 3.The years of trauma
  • 4.Patterns of inheritance
  • 5.The trials of disinterest
  • 6.The threads of a vocation
  • 7.The demands of the discipline
  • 8.A redesign of literary history
  • 9.Way markers in research design
  • 10.The gift of collaboration
  • 11.The domain of the interdisciplinary
  • 12.Literariness and the rules of art
  • 13.Rereading, feeling and imagination
  • References
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