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Where does diegesis collide?

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diegesis2 CONSTRUCTSNarration (diegesis)PLATO · REPUBLICThe diegesis (story-world)BORDWELL & THOMPSON · FILM

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Poetics & rhetoric

pure narration in which the poet reports events in their own voice, set against mimesis or imitation.

In Plato's Republic diegesis is pure narration, the poet reporting events in their own voice, set against mimesis, where the poet imitates characters by speaking as them. The referent is a mode of narration, a distinction about how a story is told rather than about the world it depicts.[1]

Unit
The mode in which a narrator reports rather than enacts events
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by whether the narrating voice reports events or impersonates characters' speech

Film studies

The world the story takes place in

In film studies the diegesis is the fictional world of the story: everything presumed to exist within it. Sound or music is diegetic when its source lies inside that world and non-diegetic when it does not, as with an unseen orchestral score. Here diegesis names a story-world, a different construct from Plato's narrating mode.[2]

Unit
The fictional story-world and what belongs inside it
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Determined by whether an element's source exists within the story-world or is added from outside it

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construct6 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one name, six constructsmimesis3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsmode5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

  1. Plato. (1992). Republic (G. M. A. Grube, Trans.; C. D. C. Reeve, Rev.). Hackett Publishing. (Original work ca. 380 BCE) ISBN 9780872201361
  2. Bordwell, D., & Thompson, K. (2012). Film art: An introduction (10th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780073535104

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