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paratext
Literature; Literary techniques
Emmanuel Genette in narrative, in addition to material termfor linked somehow to him.Paratexts can be physically attached to the narrative of the vehicle ("the peritexts"): prefaces, tables of ...
symptomatic reading
Literature; Literary techniques
Decoding a text as symptomatic of the unconscious or without acknowledgment of the author of mind, or unacknowledged cultural conditions. Generally opposed to intentional reading.
Dierct style
Literature; Literary techniques
The direct expression of a character's speech or thought, either "untagged" or "tagged" (set off from the narration by quotation marks and other indicators like "he said," "she thought")
Constituent events
Literature; Literary techniques
Constituent events are essential to the forward movement of the story; they are not all necessarily "turning points," but at the least they are essential to the chain of events that make up the ...
Autobiography
Literature; Literary techniques
A narrative about the author, purporting implicitly or explicitly to be true in the sense of nonfictional.
Agency
Literature; Literary techniques
The capacity of an entity to cause events (that is, to engage in acts). Characters by and large are entities with agency.
Action
Literature; Literary techniques
The sequence of events in a story. The action and the entities are the two basic components of story.
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