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The various versions were all forms of the syuzhet: the poesis or making, the telling of a tale whose original existed nowhere, but which could always somehow be reconstructed.
Fredric Jameson · In Hyperspace · LRB 9 September 2015 Fredric Jameson 2022
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On the face of it, they seem familiar enough, and take their point of departure in Shklovskian (and even Aristotelian) orthodoxy: fabula versus syuzhet, myth and its emplotments, the chronological facts as against the order of their telling – an opposition foregrounded in the detective story, but which, among the multiple narratives available to science fiction, is realised almost solely in time travel.
Fredric Jameson · In Hyperspace · LRB 9 September 2015 Fredric Jameson 2022
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