This methodological position paper develops the distinction between field of force and field of access as two dominant tendencies in the production of literary presence. It defines perceptual misalignment as a formalized non-coincidence between an index of presence and the scene that makes it available. Through two limit-cases — Faulkner's modernist syntax in Light in August and Homeric formulaic language — the paper shows how presence may be concentrated as syntactic and rhythmic pressure or distributed across formula, voice, body, performance, and scene. Official version archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20034682
Sandra Voss (Tue,) studied this question.