extradiegetic

Examples

• All

• The narrator of The Echo Maker is extradiegetic, heterodiegetic, and almost completely invisible.

  Academic text (2009)

• Given this context, it is small wonder that reader figures (both intradiegetic and extradiegetic) used by authors in narratives to control the reactions of the real reader have so far been relatively neglected.

  Academic text (2004)

• If it is the extradiegetic narrator, then the narrative is not a "second" narrative.

  Academic text (1996)

• The narrator continues on the extradiegetic level; the character "meanwhile" climbs the stairs.

  Academic text (2003)

• A similar extradiegetic power emerges at the end of Nabokov's powerful tirade.

  Academic text (2016)

• In the following essay, I discuss two types of reader figures: the fictive (extradiegetic) and the fictional (intradiegetic) reader.

  Academic text (2004)

• The metaleptic transgressions implied here operate between the real author or real reader and the text, jumping the extradiegetic textual level.

  Academic text (2003)

• Although this direct address is clearly aimed at Margherita on the diegetic level, it collapses higher narrative levels by potentially addressing the extradiegetic reader as well.

  Academic text (2017)

• If Sudor's generous use of gay slang prompts readers to extradiegetic edification, its erotic language seeks to provoke readers to a different sort of action.

  Academic text (2018)

• While foregrounding the aim of rhetoric and implying a parallel between persuading the court on the story level and persuading audiences on the extradiegetic level, the courtroom drama destabilizes the operation of confirmation.

  Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

H

heterodiegetic

vsextradiegetic

• Literature

9.9

A person who tells the story but is not a character in it

applies more widely to anything outside the story world

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Morphology

Etymology