Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presentation of a narrative without direct dramatic imitation of the events, scenes, or characters described.
- noun The world that is depicted in a work of narrative art, especially a film.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts; the narration (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A narrative or history; a recital or relation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun narratology A
narration orrecitation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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From the Greek diegesis, meaning the summary of an argument, we get the idea of production sound (sound within the movie that has a source within the movie), which is diegetic.
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(I had to look up, for example, the word diegesis — n.
Lost In Space 2009
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(I had to look up, for example, the word diegesis — n.
Lost In Space 2009
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(I had to look up, for example, the word diegesis — n.
Lost In Space 2009
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In other words: diegesis as storification of self and past; the marvelous; and the non-cynical view of reality these engender.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Rather it is, as I say: “about diegesis as storification of self and past; the marvelous; and the non-cynical view of reality these engender.”
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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In other words: diegesis as storification of self and past; the marvelous; and the non-cynical view of reality these engender.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Actually, as soon as I posted that, as I was toddling off to my bed, my immediate thought was that I was glossing over the way magic realism uses diegesis in exactly that way, to give a sense of a told tale — “there was once a boy” — and for precisely those reasons — influence by folktales, the anecdotal form, all the told tales of a culture.
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Ironic and distanced at first as the proper mimeticist should be, but of course, once you start playing with diegesis, story is so seductive.
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Mimesis of the oneiric + mimesis of the text = mimesis of the story = mimesis of diegesis.
lampbane commented on the word diegesis
This is also (in addition to portmanteau) a very popular word on Wikipedia.
November 11, 2007
qms commented on the word diegesis
A parable mates sundry pieces:
The set-up we call diegesis,
But all who are able
To tinker a fable
Will use it to prop up a thesis.
May 30, 2016