“For the Formalists… ‘literariness’ was a function of the differential relations between one sort of discourse and another; it was not an eternally given property. They were not out to define ‘literature’, but ‘literariness’ — special uses of language, which could be found in ‘literary’ texts but also in many places outside them.”
— Terry Eagleton, “Introduction: What is Literature?,” Literary Theory: An Introduction
