diegesis

Definition

A narration or recitation.

Etymology

Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis, “narration”), from διηγέομαι (diēgéomai, “I narrate”)

Example Sentences

• "A novel like Sterne′s Tristram Shandy, however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model."
• "The standard distinction between mimesis and diegesis is usually referred to as that between showing and telling, between iconic and indexical signs on the one hand and symbolic signs on the other, between drama and recitation."
• "Extradiegetic music is a matter of pure convention. It constitutes an exception within Hollywood classical cinema, in which everything is to belong to diegesis in order to elaborate a fictive, realistic universe."

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