diegesis

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However the diegesis is presented this is a world where these things happen, like the plain world of real people.

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  1. In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts; the narration (which see).

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  • I don't see where Grecian urns come into all this, but let's not open up another divagation or diegesis. john doyle on 16 August, 2008 - 15: 23. —  open source theology - Comments
  • Perhaps the collaborative instincts of contributors to this site could come together with a rescue package for the narrative, or at the very least, a deigesis (shouldn't that be diegesis?). —  open source theology - Comments
  • Another young woman in an attractive brown dress handed me a little pamphlet, bearing essays on the event's theme of apocalypse, clamouring with references to T. S. Eliot and Heidegger, Dasein and diegesis. —  Varieties of Unreligious Experience
  • The film's diegesis continues and exacerbates the logic of displacement by putting into his mouth words that others would only have read on the printed page, pointing up the artificiality of the Jack's moment of free and direct expression, of the right to tell one's story and give one's own account of one's self, is also the moment of commodification. —  Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
  • The word "diegetic" is derived from "diegesis," a storytelling term originally in Aristotle's
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  1. New Latin, from Greek διήγησις, narration, from διηγεῖσθαι, set forth in detail, narrate, from διά, through, + ἡγεῖσθαι lead.
 

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