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Methods > Narratology (Methods) > Narrator > Extradiegetic narrator

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879Extradiegetic narrator  

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Scope note

  • Narrative technique in which the narrator is one who narrates a story from outside the fictional universe of a particular text. For example the narrator in Thousand and One Nights is extradiegetic, since he recounts the facts that consist the main plot, but he stands out of it.

Source

  • Genette 1982

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Kalafata Patritsia (AA)

Notation

  • 879

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/879

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