MDST*2030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Value Judgment, Actant, Mimesis
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Often borrows story form to deliver facts facts might be coloured by opinion. Made-up stories may deliver (cid:498)truth(cid:499) regarding human condition. Value judgment: what is important to focus on, what is valuable in that world. Story form: universal human cultural behaviour, how humans understand life. Art: selective recreation of reality according to an artist"s metaphysical value judgments. Intradiegetic narrator told from the perspective of a consciousness outside the story told from the perspective of a consciousness inside the story told from the perspective of a consciousness inside the story. Lecture 2 perspective: narrators can explain what the characters are thinking, 3rd person. Vision from behind: author can be present or not, fixed single character, variable changes (but not omniscient, multiple determinate number of focalizors, narrator speaks for themselves, unreliability levels of intimacy (cid:498)vision from within(cid:499) Narrator = character (says no more or less than a character knows)
