Diegesis

//ˌdaɪ.ɪˈd͡ʒiːsɪs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A narration or recitation.

    "A novel like Sterne′s Tristram Shandy, however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model."

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"A novel like Sterne′s Tristram Shandy, however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model."

Etymology

Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis, “narration”), from διηγέομαι (diēgéomai, “I narrate”)

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