ENGB03H3 Lecture 6: ENGB03 Lecture 6.pdf
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Diegesis and mimesis: both greek words; we still use the untranslated word, mimesis- showing, acting (acting on stage, diegesis- telling, narrating; only telling what happened (narrative poem i. e. iliad) For instance, an intradiegetic character tells another story embedded in the higher levels; the story occurs here. Characters and self: auto/bio/graphy = self/life/writing, bio/graphy = life/writing, first person narrator is usually a homodiegetic and intradiegetic narrator. Life writing: autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, diaries, testimonies, more modern, travel narratives; conversion/salvation narratives; blogs; letters, emails, all are usually written in first person, minus biography. When we read hillary rodham clinton"s autobiography we trust that there is a real person named hillary rodham clinton who sat down to write a book about hrc, told from the. June 16, 2014: roman a clef- originally were very gossipy, so they used fake names to avoid being sued.
