2015- 5- 9
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من محاضرة 8
Narrative Mood: Mimesis vs. Diegesis
- Traditional criticism studied, under the category of mood, the question whether literature uses mimesis (showing) or diegesis (telling).
- Since the function of narrative is not to give an order, express a wish, state a condition, etc., but simply to tell a story and therefore to “report” facts (real or fictive), the indicative is its only mood.
- In that sense, Genette says, all narrative is necessarily diegesis (telling). It can only achieve an illusion of mimesis (showing) by making the story real, alive and vivid.
- No narrative can show or imitate the story it tells. All it can do is tell it in a manner that can try to be detailed, precise, alive, and in that way give more or less the illusion of mimesis (showing). Narration (oral or written) is a fact of language and language signifies without imitating.
- Mimesis, for Gennete is only a form of diegesis, showing is only a form of telling.
- It is more accurate to study the relationship of the narrative to the information it presents under the headings of: Distance and Perspective
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