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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 272–291.
Published: 01 August 2018
... as a privileged spatial agent within the diegesis; the central quality of these enclaves is that they are at once ordinary and extraordinary—set off from any shared social fabric and representative of general psychic and material qualities. Methodologically, the essay begins with critical description, following...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 307–316.
Published: 01 November 2020
...”) with unknowability; the principle of the novel's center of consciousness with a dispersal of consciousness; and the principle of the protagonist's enclosure within the diegesis with the possibility of an escape. By its means, the novel puts a fracture in that form of “hegemony” that Williams locates “in the fibres...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 320–322.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of narrative effects as self oscillates toward and
away from other and the reader is interpellated into the diegesis-a move that will lead
him, in the book's penultimate.chapter, to argue for the inclusion of historical authors and
actual readers as referential entities, essentially expanding the time...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 480–500.
Published: 01 November 2022
... scrapbook diegesis reading Curse the papers! . . . I believe that they make themselves wings like grasshoppers, and fly away bodily. ——Walter Scott, The Antiquary Walter Scott's Waverley Novels feature several characters who, without being authors, nonetheless make books. This group...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... Ángel's apartment provides Leo safe harbor in a scene that is reproduced from the earlier two films: each final scene shows the pair of friends toasting one another on New Year's Eve in a location previously unremarked in the diegesis. Old Acquaintance draws its name from this tableau, where, after...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 292–295.
Published: 01 August 2021
... through “layering the time of the story with that of the reader, making the body's aging an important point of reference when language conjures the effect of passing time” (35). Although an awareness of gaps in diegesis helps readers mark divergence from a mimetic representation of time's passage...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2019
... politics remain important to understand. If one of the things that literature teaches us is how to respond to certain events, behaviors, and actions in specific ways, analyses of affect and form require each other. As any outcry over casting and over decisions about narrative diegesis in TV or film...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 August 2021
... on a conspiratorial, diegesis-breaking motivation for the discrepancies. Textual scholarship finds its origins and then matures in the exegesis of scripture, this human recalled. An “ascendant” fabricant, Sonmi∼451 figures as fully divine in the narrative pinnacle of Mitchell's world-building: the postapocalyptic...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., the distinction between diegesis and extradiegesis, metalepsis, character systems, actantial functions, and so on. Jameson by no means ignores this work, but by trimming narrative to récit and opposing it to an equally large and important novelistic impulse, he implies that many of these topics need...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 August 2017
...,” however, the novel is no less concerned with “call[ing] attention to the distribution of attention” ( Woloch 245 ). On the contrary, its excessive focus on Isabel is a source of constant agitation, and misgivings about the exclusivity of this focus puncture the diegesis at several key moments. Isabel...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 84–102.
Published: 01 May 2004
... as "the
use of formal features that draw attention to themselves in some way" (152). In
Ulysses, the styles that "draw attention to themselves" tend to draw readerly
attention away from the diegesis-that is, away from the novel's fictional world
of people, places and things-and toward...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 490–496.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of radical interchange-
ability between reader and text in which the challenges any one character faces
within the diegesis are isomorphic with those we confront as consumers of the
novel. Moreover, in figuring her reader as a visitant shade, Eliot casts the process
of reading as a state...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 189–196.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to perceive
this.
Fourth, the fictionality of fictional discourse resides not in its representational
contents as much as in its mode of presentation—that is, among other things, its
mediation by a narrator (Genette; Yacobi); its extensive use of mimesis in addition
to diegesis (as Plato uses...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the realistic illusion ( Fludernik 391 ), but also, by blurring the lines between ontological levels, generating the kind of vertiginous effect that is the mark of postmodern fiction ( Freedgood ). But for all the traffic between different levels of diegesis and the oscillation between enhanced realism...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the immediacy of contemporary experience, it is again slightly strange that the narrative mode tends more toward diegesis than mimesis, preferring the more distant mode of telling or reporting to the immediacy of showing. However, we can see these two narratological features—the past tense and the diegetic mode...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 424–437.
Published: 01 November 2013
... is peppered with jokes, but characters’ attempted humor fails to elicit
laughter within the narrative diegesis. This failure is a structural element of the
narrative itself through which Joyce exposes the temporal experience of coloniza-
tion, which is retrospective, in contrast to the rhetorical time...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 181–199.
Published: 01 August 2004
... and old school companion" and who,
along with Utterson, had been one of Jekyll's only friends. Within the diegesis,
Lanyon is represented as having become estranged from Jekyll, who he believed
"began to go wrong, wrong in the mind" as a consequence of having enrnired
himself in "unscientific...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... Many recent influential readings of American realism have centered on questions of texts or authors “making” themselves, as style or diegesis serves as an allegory of routes toward institutional prestige—for instance, Mark McGurl's influential account of autopoiesis, “the variable tendency...
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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in which he addresses the problem of literary realism from the standpoint of temporality. In a postmodern revision of Plato's ancient distinction between diegesis and mimesis, Jameson views the dialectic between two conflicting impulses as responsible for the emergence, development, and dissolution...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... The speed and intensity that he finds so typical are aspects of the world that discloses itself to the novel, or the way that the novel intends the world. That world includes and shapes its own diegesis. Types, for Lukács, seem to provide a key to the novel's intentionality, though he does not use...
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