ENGL101A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Flashforward
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Actions: when a character has been responsible for an event. Happenings: when a character is affected by an event. Assists us in analyzing how passive or aggressive characters are. Contemplating the representation of time: order, duration, frequency. Relies on the fact that story time and discourse time are different. Story time: the logical idea of how time passes (plot abc). Discourse time: suggests that how you write about time is not necessarily how time passes (the process of reading cba). Order: the sequencing of events; analepsis (flashback) vs. prolepsis (flash-forward). Homodiegetic vs. heterodiegetic and external and internal flashbacks/flash-forewords. Homodiegetic: if a flashback/forward relates directly to the character having it. Heterodiegetic: if a flashback/forward relates to a different character. External: if a flashback/forward happens outside the span of the story. Internal: if a flashback/forward happens inside the span of the story. Distance: how long ago or in the future a flashback/forward happened.
