I think Bakhtin said that he liked to have many words for the same thing. Or
almost the same things. Everyday talk and theoretical talk both need many
words as much as, at times, agreed definition for one term.
Recently reading Noel Burch's excellent 'Life To Those Shadows' I was struck
by how differently he (and a certain tradition) used the term diegesis to
the way I would use it. (I always think I used it as Plato did to refer to
indirect narration rather than mimetic narration) Would anyone care to share
their concept of diegesis?
Ross
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