In other words, an enormous variety of aspects of literature, understood as "literariness," can become the dominant.

也就是说，文学的很多方面，也就是我们所说的文学性，都可以占支配地位。

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What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

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Literariness, then. What is literariness?

文学性，什么是文学性？

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What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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