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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of focalise.

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  • Or put it another way: life, like narrative, is a focalised thing; except that it focalises at every moment with equal force.

    Age Adam Roberts Project 2006

  • Or put it another way: life, like narrative, is a focalised thing; except that it focalises at every moment with equal force.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Adam Roberts Project 2006

  • Well, when you dig down through the layers of obfuscation, you discover that what Genette calls non-focalised fiction is simply a story told from the point of view of the classic omniscient narrator of whom more below.

    November 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • In that book, Genette identifies three types of prose, which he refers to as non-focalised, internally focalised, and externally focalised.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • And an externally focalised story is one which is told in the Hemingway manner, with an account of the events being given from the viewpoint of one of the characters, but without any comment or thoughts from that character.

    November 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • And an externally focalised story is one which is told in the Hemingway manner, with an account of the events being given from the viewpoint of one of the characters, but without any comment or thoughts from that character.

    The point of view, part 1 Michael Allen 2004

  • Internally focalised prose is a story told from the point of view of a particular character.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • And an externally focalised story is one which is told in the Hemingway manner, with an account of the events being given from the viewpoint of one of the characters, but without any comment or thoughts from that character.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • Well, when you dig down through the layers of obfuscation, you discover that what Genette calls non-focalised fiction is simply a story told from the point of view of the classic omniscient narrator of whom more below.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • In that book, Genette identifies three types of prose, which he refers to as non-focalised, internally focalised, and externally focalised.

    The point of view, part 1 Michael Allen 2004

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