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Genette is largely responsible for the reintroduction of a rhetorical vocabulary into literary criticism, for example such terms as trope and metonymy.Additionally, his work on narrative, best known in English through the selection Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, has been of importance. [3]
Focalisation is a term coined by the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette. [1] It refers to the perspective through which a narrative is presented. Genette focuses on the interplay between three forms of focalization and the distinction between heterodiegetic and homodiegetic narrators.
This chapter — with more than a quarter of the book the longest — two models of narrative theory, the typological model of Franz K. Stanzel (Bode: "Teutonic Rosette") and the narrative theory of Gérard Genette (Bode: "Gallic Taxonomy"), are explained, compared and commented.
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Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]
According to Plato, lexis is the manner of speaking.Plato said that lexis can be divided into mimesis (imitation properly speaking) and diegesis (simple narrative). Gerard Genette states: "Plato's theoretical division, opposing the two pure and heterogeneous modes of narrative and imitation, within poetic diction, elicits and establishes a practical classification of genres, which includes the ...
The book is also highly regarded for his wide and far-reaching conceptualization of parody. [2] In the book Genette coined the term paratext , which has since become widespread to denote prefaces, introductions, illustrations or other material accompanying the text, or hypotext for the sources of the text.
"Try to see the good in people." "Come on − he can't be that bad." "You should be grateful to even be in a relationship." If you've heard these phrases before, chances are you've been bright sided.