Diegesis vs Narrative - What's the difference?
diegesis | narrative |
(narratology) A narration or recitation.
* 1985 , Bill Nichols, Movies and Methods: An Anthology ,
* 1991 , Christopher Collins, The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination ,
* 2004 , Sarah Hatchuel, Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen ,
Telling a story.
Overly talkative; garrulous.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Alexander Pope)
Of or relating to narration.
The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story.
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As nouns the difference between diegesis and narrative
is that diegesis is a narration or recitation while narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.As an adjective narrative is
telling a story.diegesis
English
(wikipedia diegesis)Noun
(diegeses)page 504,
- A novel like Sterne?s Tristram Shandy , however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model.
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- 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.
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- 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
* mimesisnarrative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- the narrative thrust of a film