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Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory.
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December 22, 2001|
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The distinction between fabula and sujet is, according to various commonsensical definitions, the distinction between what happens in a narrative and how it is told; narrative theory, however, has struggled to reconcile common sense with conceptual rigor. The terms themselves derive from Russian Formalism, but the basic opposition they articulate is much older--it is there in the Poetics (everyone agrees that sujet corresponds to Aristotle's muthos, but whether fabula is best equated with praxis, or logos, or holos rather depends on which theorist you are reading). Numerous ...
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