Articulation of an interactive model of literariness calls for separate specification of (a) a text’s perceptible
mode of representation, (b) a reader’s mode of engagement with a text so perceived, and (c) the generative (e.g., creative,
expressive) effects of the interaction between this mode of representation and mode of reader engagement. We present a model that
identifies two aspects of metaphoric textual representation: structured sequences of nominal metaphors and quasi-metaphoric
structures with optional metaphoric construal. This model also distinguishes two modes of reader engagement: expressive enactment
and integrative comprehension (Kuiken & Douglas, 2017). The generativity of
literary reading is located especially within the interplay between expressive enactment and sequences of metaphoric (and
quasi-metaphoric) modes of representation. Evidence suggests that readers reporting expressive enactment also report inexpressible
realizations and a temporal progression leading through epistemic tensions that comprise “living metaphor” (Ricoeur, 1981). Thus the generativity – and aesthetic effects – of literary reading are found within the
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