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anachrony: a standalone construct

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anachrony1 CONSTRUCTAnachronyGENETTE · NARRATOLOGY

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Narratology

any discordance between the order in which events happen in the story and the order in which the text tells them, covering flashbacks and flash-forwards.

In narratology, anachrony refers to any discordance between the order in which events happen in the story and the order in which the text tells them, covering flashbacks and flash-forwards. This meaning comes from Genette (1979) in Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method.[1]

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discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructsessay1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructnarrative5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

  1. Genette, G. (1979). Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Blackwell. ISBN 9780631109815

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