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Diegesis vs Narrate - What's the difference?

diegesis | narrate |

As a noun diegesis

is the plot or narrative of a written work.

As a verb narrate is

to relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

diegesis

Noun

(diegeses)
  • (narratology) A narration or recitation.
  • * 1985 , Bill Nichols, Movies and Methods: An Anthology , page 504,
  • A novel like Sterne?s Tristram Shandy , however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model.
  • * 1991 , Christopher Collins, The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination , page 4,
  • 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.
  • * 2004 , Sarah Hatchuel, Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen , page 89,
  • 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.

    See also

    * mimesis

    narrate

    English

    Verb

    (narrat)
  • To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
  • To give an account.
  • Synonyms

    * (relate) tell * (give an account) report