focalization

Examples

• All

• What techniques of focalization correspond with the different pronouns used?

  Academic text (1992)

• Gerard Genette first associated focalization with a "focal character" and the questions, "Who sees?" and "Who perceives?"

  Academic text (1996)

• All these reasons concern autobiography in general and mean that, properly speaking, focalization is that of the narrator.

  Academic text (1992)

• Clearly, only an experience can make me a proper focal character, constituting a case of internal focalization through hero or witness.

  Academic text (1996)

• Once again, focalization dictates to a not insignificant degree the content of the passage.

  Academic text (1992)

• In general, focalization theory addresses the options and ranges of orientational restrictions of narrative presentation.

  Academic text (1996)

• Self-narration, in particular retrospective self-narration, interrelates theme, narration, and focalization in an obvious, yet problematic manner.

  Academic text (1992)

• Gordon Collier argues that "it is clearer to speak of a series of fixed focalizations than of variable localization" (123).

  Academic text (1996)

• In film studies, focalization often determines how the audience perceives the story's main conflict.

• Understanding the focalization in this poem helps to clarify the emotional depth of the speaker's experience.

Synonyms

V

viewpoint

vsfocalization

6 3.9

A place that lets you see a large area

refers to the storytelling angle from which a narrative is shown

How Close

stream of consciousness

• Literature

7 8.1

focalization

• Literature

8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology