Diegesis and Representation

Beyond the Fictional World, on the Margins of Story and Narrative

Bibliographic Data

ID4375280
AuthorsRemigius Bunia (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume31
Issue4
Pages679-720
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-2010-010
OpenAlexW2147461088
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited39

The article raises the question whether the term diegesis-despite its rather widespread use among scholars-lacks a coherent definition. When diegesis is interpreted as the "narrated world," the concepts related to hetero- and extradiegesis turn out to be partly inconsistent. This is why the article resorts to the notion of world; it considers defining diegesis as a "limited field" within the narrated world. However, this attempt at defining diegesis reveals certain peculiarities of representation. Their analysis leads to another characterization of diegesis: as-roughly speaking-the information explicitly conveyed by a representation. As an effect of processing meaning, diegesis is, then, not a narratological tool but an epistemic phenomenon that requires further examination

Art · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy