Meaning of diegesis | Babel Free

Definitions

A narration or recitation.

Equivalents

Examples

“A novel like⟳ Sterne′s Tristram Shandy, however, simply embeds a number⟳ of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model⟳.”

“The standard distinction between mimesis and diegesis is usually referred to as that between showing and telling, between iconic and indexical signs on the one hand and symbolic signs on the other, between drama and recitation.”

“Extradiegetic music is a matter⟳ of pure convention. It constitutes an exception within Hollywood classical cinema, in which everything is to belong⟳ to diegesis in order⟳ to elaborate a fictive, realistic universe.”

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