diegesis

Examples

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• Though the diegesis has it that he is master of his friends' fate, he knows that in fact there is a puppeteer pulling their strings.

  Academic text (2016)

• In the film, the diegesis includes a richly detailed background that enhances the storytelling.

• And my paper ends with a hokey conclusion, so I'll stop my little diegesis there.

  Blog text (23)

• The promise of "reverberation variable" was that it could fuse the two kinds of space into a credible diegesis.

  Academic text (1998)

• Another relatively common case of rupture of discourse levels is the intrusion of the author into the diegesis.

  Academic text (2014)

• But since, as previously argued, headphones limit the "acoustic space of the movie theatre" to each passenger's head, the film's diegesis need only align with the "native tongue" of a single passenger.

  Academic text (2016)

• By paralleling discourse and diegesis, Puig is implicitly arguing that both literary and social positionings are repressive.

  Academic text (1991)

• Since diegetic components represent a desired reader response, one may conclude that diegesis dramatizes the desire of the discourse (Barthes 89).

  Academic text (1991)

• According to Genette, descriptive pauses occur when the author withdraws from the diegesis, or story, to describe a scene that the reader and other characters in the passage are not currently viewing (99-102).

  Academic text (1998)

• The author created a unique diegesis that blends reality with fantasy, drawing the readers into an immersive experience.

Synonyms

M

mythos

vsdiegesis

• Literature

4 8.6

A set of stories and details that form the background of a film or book world

is the narrative world and framework where story events occur

Surface Forms

Etymology