--- Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> in narratology "diegesis" is what happens IN the
> world
> of characters -- the stuff within the fiction -- as
> distinct
> from "narration" which is everything that serves as
> a tool
> to create and communicate that stuff
It might be helpful to understand diegesis not (only)
as the depicted world, but as the world the reader /
audience constructs from the material provided by the
narration. So the diegetic world is the result of
"filling in blanks" and re-arranging the order of time
to his experience (that time is linear).
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