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📅 October 13

🔤 EXTRADIEGETIC AND INTRADIEGETIC
🖋️ Gerard Genette

💭 Levels of narration: extradiegetic being outside the story world, intradiegetic being a narrator who exists within it.

📝 In "Frankenstein," Walton's letters frame an extradiegetic level around Victor's intradiegetic account.

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📅 October 14

🔤 FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE
🖋️ Narrative technique

💭 A technique blending a character's voice and thoughts with the narrator's own voice, without direct quotation.

📝 Jane Austen slips into Emma's own judgments through free indirect discourse without ever using quotation marks.

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📅 October 15

🔤 IMPLIED AUTHOR
🖋️ Wayne C. Booth

💭 The version of the author a reader infers from the text's values and choices, distinct from the real person who wrote it.

📝 Booth argued a novel's implied author may hold values quite different from those of the actual historical writer.

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📅 October 16

🔤 VERISIMILITUDE
🖋️ Literary theory

💭 The quality of seeming true or lifelike within a fictional work, even when the events are invented.

📝 Realist novelists like George Eliot aimed for verisimilitude by grounding fiction in closely observed everyday detail.