Gérard Genette’s scientific contributions

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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method
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January 1980

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Gérard Genette

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... Plato and Aristotle tried to distinguish between mimetic and diegetic narratives by proposing that mimetic genres show action (dramatisation), whereas diegetic genres tell a narrative (Genette, 1980). Responding to the differentiation of dietetic and mimetic genres, Piper (2015: 160) asserts that 'reality and fiction are often thought of as a distinctly binary opposition, the real and true in opposition to the invented'. ...

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The interplay of verbal cinematic, balletic and pantomimic manifestations in isiZulu literary narratives
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method
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  • January 1980