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Cultural Damage and Some Literary Repair (Condé, Carn et al.)
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 94-106
- 10.1353/esp.0.0199
- Article
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The contrast between mimesis and diegesis was refined by Riffaterre in his book Fictional Truth which proposes an innovative theory of narrative. Illustrating this contrast with francophone and other contemporary works, the essay argues that story telling is based upon the disruption of form.